Banjul — On September 30, the Gambian Truth Commission should submit its final report. But the party of former dictator Yahya Jammeh has made it clear, after the 4 September announcement of its alliance with current president Adama Barrow's party, that the goal is to scrap all the work done by the Commission over the past three years.
For almost two decades, a Gambian newspaper, The Point, has been publishing in its top left corner a question: "Who killed Deyda Hydara?" Hydara was a founder of the newspaper. And finally, in July 2019, Malick Jatta, a member of the hit-squad operating on the orders of former president Yahya Jammeh, confessed before the Truth Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (TRRC) that he took part in the operation that killed the journalist in December 2004. Since then, The Point changed its headline to: "Jammeh killed Deyda Hydara".
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