The Gambia's government has paid out $100,000 (£78,000) in compensation to the family of journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh who has been missing since his detention by the former regime of Yahya Jammeh in 2006, a local journalist has tweeted.

Mr Jammeh's regime had refused to implement a 2008 order of a court run by the Economic Community of Western African States to pay compensation to Manneh's family.

He was among the journalists who had become a symbol of the brutal repression the media faced during Mr Jammeh's 22-year rule, which ended with the opposition leader Adama Barrow taking office in January 2017.

It is widely assumed that Manneh is dead. Mr Jammeh's regime denied he had been detained.