By Modou S. Joof
President Yahya Jammeh’s hit squad, the Junglers, killed journalist Deyda Dydara, the Gambia Truth Commission heard on Monday.
An ex-member of the autocratic leader’s assassin team, Malick Jatta, said he and three other assassins fired the gunshots that killed the journalist on December 16, 2004.
Hydara was co-founder of The Point newspaper, and a correspondent of Agence France-Presse, AFP and Reporters Without Borders, RSF. He was known to be a fierce critic of Jammeh and his tyranny and had questioned his desire to prolong his stay in power. Continue reading