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Born in 1955, Pap Saine 's most notable achievement is the survival and growth of The Point, one of The Gambia's leading and most respected newspapers, which he nurtured through the 22-year dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh—a period when journalists we...
A New Dawn and Continued Influence With the electoral defeat of Yahya Jammeh in 2016 and the subsequent new political dispensation under President Adama Barrow, Pap Saine and The Point entered a new era.
Career, The Point, and Major Achievements The defining chapter in the career of Deyda Hydara† began in 1991 when he, along with two colleagues, Pap Saine and Babucar Gaye, founded *The Point* newspaper.
According to testimony from colleagues, including then-editor-in-chief Pap Saine, Manneh was in the process of this work when plainclothes agents of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) entered the newsroom on July 7, 2006.