In 2005,
The Chronicle broke the story about the alleged killing of 44 Ghanaians on the orders of the then Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh.
According to the report at the time, The Gambian authorities mistook the Ghanaians for mercenaries who had come to overthrow Jammeh’s government. Upon consultation with President Jammeh, without any thorough investigations, he ordered his troops to kill the Ghanaians and other African nationals.
The sole survivor in the massacre, Martin Kyere, had, over the years, explained that he and his colleagues were not mercenaries and that they were on their way to Europe, through the Sahara Dessert, when they were accosted by The Gambian military, who sent them to a forest and murdered them.