My intention to remain in my home country, to use my pen to correct injustice, and to champion press freedom was aborted by security threats that forced me and my family into exile. I left behind my beloved country and editorial desk in the hands of perpetrators.
The words of Musa Saidykhan,a journalist in the Gambia writing at CPR over the weekend.
He muses on the death of Independent journalism in the country and after being appointed the editor-in-chief of The Independent, a biweekly paper known for being outspoken,the countries security personnel made his life as a journalist very difficult.
He was arrested and held for 22 days following an attempted coup in the country fleeing to Senegal before settling in the US
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