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Fatoumatta: Deyda Hydara epitomized the traditional values of journalism —accuracy, courage, independence, and integrity — that we seek to imbue in our Journalists. By honoring the Deyda Hydara legacy, we hope to instill in our Journalists the moral and ethical framework they will need to help them navigate a new […]
Press statement: (Banjul, 30 Nov., 2023) – The Gambia Press Union (GPU) welcomes today’s verdict and sentencing of Bai Lowe, a former death squad member under ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, to life imprisonment for his role in the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara. The Higher Regional Court of Celle, a northern […]
Reliable reports reaching LamToro News (LTN) have it that Mrs. Isatou Jagne, widely known as Ida Jagne, is scheduled to testify in the murder trial of Bai Lowe, a member of the former president Yahya Jammeh’s hit squad known as the Junglers. Her testimony is scheduled for October 2022 in […]
One Mr. D’Angelo, a staff of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Germany and a Gambian identified as Bakary Sanyang, have on Monday testified in the Bai Lowe trial in Germany. Mr. D’Angelo was the officer who conducted the second hearing of Bai Lowe’s asylum procedure and had […]