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– Fighting impunity: Gambian government agrees to comply with ECOWAS court ruling (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 9, 2017

In what is a major breakthrough in the long fight against impunity in The Gambia, two senior government officials have revealed that the Gambian government has decided to comply with the rulings of the ECOWAS Court in the cases of journalists Deyda Hydara, Ebrima Manneh and Musa Saidykhan.
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