On 3 December he was charged with the killing of newspaper editor Deyda Hydara in 2004 as well as the murder of Ndongo Mboob and Jammeh's cousin Haruna Jammeh...
Bai Lowe was once part of what he claimed was an assassination unit working for the President and in 2013 he said that his unit had been ordered to assassinate Deyda Hydara proprietor of The Point newspaper who was murdered in December 2004 (AC Vol 53 No 4 No freedom of the press)...
The case is just one of many including the murder in December 2004 of The Point’s Deyda Hydara which still provoke public outrage...
The assassins of Deyda Hydara one of Gambia’s most senior editors (AC Vol 46 No 6 Cold murder trail) are widely believed to have been the ‘Green Boys’ thugs from the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC)...
Vol 51 No 24 |
- GAMBIA
- IRAN
Two prominent cases are unsolved: the assassination of leading editor Deyda Hydara in 2004 and the disappearance of Daily Observer journalist Ebrima Manneh in 2007 (AC Vol 50 No 15)...
The independent papers The Point and Foroyaa have persisted in disbelieving Jammeh's assertions that the state was not involved in the still-unsolved December 2004 shooting of Deyda Hydara then-Editor of The Point...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The murder of the doyen of Gambian journalists Deyda Hydara in December 2004 remains unsolved and a shadowy militia called the ‘Jungullars’ apparently a successor to the ‘Green Boys’ accused of killing Hydara has direct links to the armed forces...
Jammeh and the Green Boys Jammeh commands strong loyalty among the state guards an elite unit implicated in the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara and other attacks on the press...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The hunt with international support for the 2004 killers of media doyen Deyda Hydara will further damage Jammeh's international reputation...
Efforts to find out who murdered Deyda Hydara Editor of The Point newspaper on 16 December become more bizarre by the day...
By contrast Jammeh is under fire from human rights organisations and the Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) over the still unexplained murder of leading journalist Deyda Hydara in December (AC Vol 46 No 1)...