16 December 2004
Deida Hydara
Shooting
The AFP correspondent in the Gambian capital Banjul, Deida Hydara, 58, was shot three times and died instantly shortly after midnight as he was dropping off colleagues from the newspaper The Point, of which he was co-editor with Pape Saine.
Hydara had worked for AFP since 1974, beginning his career with the agency as a translator. In 1994 he became a correspondent for the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres in the former colony.
