Demba Jawo/CPJ Guest Blogger
Demba Jawo is a former president of the Gambia Press Union.
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Deyda Hydara, a friend and colleague murdered in impunity
I can still vividly recall how the news of Deyda Hydara’s killing was relayed to me on the morning of December 17, 2004, after I returned from a trip to Zambia the previous night. Very early that morning, I called his childhood friend and partner at The Point, Pap Saine, who told me: “They shot…