April 10, 2005 – 12:00 am
Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara was murdered in December 2004 in what Reporters Without Borders claimed was a well-organized operation that bears a resemblance to the murders of other journalists in that country.
Hydara, who edited Gambia’s Point newspaper and worked for Agence-France Presse and with Reporters Without Borders, was an outspoken opponent of new laws designed […]
August 25, 2003 – 12:00 am
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announced he was putting limits on widespread polygamy in his country — for the next three years, men will be allowed to have no more than three wives.
According to a BBC report Jammeh’s proclamation, however, the prohibition may not have much real effect,
“Pleas allow the young men to get married took” […]