The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, on Wednesday 15 December, 2021 made a courtesy call on the privately-owned The Point newspaper where he worked as news editor for both the English and French versions of the paper until 2005. Minister Tangara was[Read More…]
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Another Deyda Hydara Anniversary – Still Waiting For Justice
It is yet another anniversary of the assassination of Deyda Hydara, Managing Editor and co-founder of The Point newspaper, and his family, colleagues and friends are still waiting for justice. It was 17 years ago, on 16 December 2004, when a group of ‘Junglers’ apparently on the orders of former[Read More…]
Deyda Hydara’s Daughter: ‘I Am Still Crying’ For Murdered Gambian Journalist
By Angela Quintal/CPJ Africa Program Coordinator At Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on July 22, army officer Lieutenant Malick Jatta named former President Yahya Jammeh as the mastermind behind the murder of prominent editor Deyda Hydara on December 16 , 2004. He said Jammeh had given the direct[Read More…]
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