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…]
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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…]
Building The New Gambia With Madi Jobarteh: Tribute To A Champion Of Sovereignty
With all due respect to the Hydara family and as painful as it sounds, the killing of Deyda was not about Deyda Hydara. Deyda was killed because of what he represented which was what Yaya Jammeh wanted to extinguish. Deyda stood up to uphold the sovereignty and freedoms and power[Read More…]
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