Gambia's Jammeh Ordered Journalist Hydara's Murder - Report

An army officer has said he was part of a group of men who murdered Gambian editor Deyda Hydara in 2004 on the orders of then-President Yahya Jammeh, AFP reports. Hydara was the managing editor and co-owner of the independent newspaper The Point, and a correspondent for AFP and Reporters Without Borders.

Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia.

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