Outrage in Gambia over claims ex-president ordered killings (Guardian)

Baba Hydara was in his car, listening to the radio when he heard a former hitman of ex-president Yahya Jammeh coldly describe how his dad was murdered.

Baba’s father, Deyda Hydara, co-founder of The Point newspaper and AFP’s correspondent in The Gambia for 30 years, was revered among journalists in this small west African country.

Baba Hydara, 42, has fought for years for his father’s murderers and those who ordered them to be brought to book.

Now the wall of silence around Jammeh’s 22-year reign of fear is starting to crack, and information — if not yet justice — is starting to flow. Read more