PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award (2005) Hero of African Journalism Award (2010)
Deyda Hydara (June 9, 1946 – December 16, 2004) was a co-founder and primary editor of The Point, a major independent Gambian newspaper. He was also a correspondent for both AFP News Agency and Reporters Without Borders for more than 30 years. Hydara also worked as a Radio presenter in the Gambia called Radio Syd during his early years as a freelance journalist.
DeydaHydara (June 9, 1946 – December 16, 2004) was a co-founder and primary editor of The Point, a major independent Gambian newspaper. He was also a...
Hydara may refer to: DeydaHydara (1946–2004), Gambian journalist and murder victim Sadibou Hydara (1964–1995), Gambian military officer and politician...
disappearance. Particular examples include the murder of journalist DeydaHydara in 2004, a student massacre at a protest in 2000, public threats to kill...
gm/africa/gambia/article/the-gambia-government-loss-against-the-killing-of-deyda-hydara Adive, J.R., 1989. The Verbal Piece in Ebira. Publication in Linguistics...
2004 28 September LGBT rights activist Freetown Sierra Leone Unknown DeydaHydara 2004 16 December Gambian newspaper reporter Banjul Gambia Yahya Jammeh...
presidency, largely because of her response to the killing of the journalist DeydaHydara, and she spent 2009–2017 in Mali, where she holds dual citizenship. Ndey...
along with DeydaHydara and Babucarr Gaye; Hydara and Saine had been friends since childhood. Gaye resigned four months later, and Hydara and Saine ran...
1944 – Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster 1946 – DeydaHydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (d. 2004) 1946...
number of individual journalists were also targeted. In December 2004, DeydaHydara, then editor of The Point, announced his intention to publicly challenge...
publisher William Dixon Colley (1913-2001). Other co-founders included DeydaHydara (1946-2004), Melvin B. Jones and Pap Saine. Around 200 journalists in...
climate of fear created by the unsolved murder of prominent Gambian editor DeydaHydara, a series of unsolved arsons of media houses, and a pattern of government...
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) hearing on the murder of DeydaHydara in 2011. In 2014, former NIA analyst Ousman Bojang accused Saine of withholding...
Zimbabwe 2004 – Pius Njawé, Cameroon 2005 – Michèle Montas, Haiti 2006 – DeydaHydara, and members of the Gambian Press Union (posthumous) 2007 – National...
Quang Vietnam Nasser Zarafshan Iran 2005 Ali Al-Domaini Saudi Arabia DeydaHydara Gambia 2006 Mohammad Benchicou Algeria Rakhim Esenov Turkmenistan 2007...
the Gambian publisher and editor, co-founded The Point Newspaper with DeydaHydara and Babucarr Gaye. 1 April 2000 : President Abdou Diouf, like his predecessor...
Journalists of Eritrea 2007 – National Union of Somali Journalists 2006 – DeydaHydara, & Members of the Gambian Press Union (Posthumous) 2005 – Michele Montas...
received the Gambia Press Union Press Freedom Hero Award and in 2021, the DeydaHydara Award for Press Freedom. In 2019, she was appointed as Chair of the Board...
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