Breaking News: Gambia: Jallow and Saine in Austria to attend IPI World Congress Jallow and Saine in Austria to attend IPI World Congress As Jallow And Saine Honored As IPI Heroes The International Press Institute (IPI) will hold its annual World Congress in Vienna, Austria, and Bratislava, Slovakia, from 11-15 September 2010, Alagi Yorro Jallow and Pap Saine of The Gambia will attend this World Congress. Pap Saine and other eight journalists who have shown courage in defending universal rights will be honored as IPI Heroes,bringing the number of IPI World Press Freedom Heroes to sixty. International Press Institute is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, who are dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom, the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of free flow of news and information and the improvement of the practices of journalism. In another development, this paper has gathered that the former Banjul based Daily Observer Newspaper Proprietor Kenneth Y Best, a renowned Liberian journalist, is also among the honored journalists. Mr. Best, is the proprietor of the Liberian Daily Observer in Monrovia. Mr. Best was deported from The Gambia by the former military junta headed by then Lieutenant Chairman Jammeh. He sold his Newspaper to businessman Amadou Samba, a close associate of President Jammeh.
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