`Post' newsman gets UN scholarship

Thu, 21 Jul 1994 | Source: REUTERS

UNITED NATIONS (Reuter): Journalists from Cameroon, Algeria, Indonesia and Rumania on Tuesday were awarded a UN Correspondents Association scholarship to cover this year's General Assembly session, beginning in September.

The four are Joseph Bannavti of the Cameroon Post, Nacera Banslama of the Algerian Press Service, Samsudin Berlian of Indonesia's The Jakarta Post and Alexandra Andon of Rumania's Adevarul Paper.

The Dag Hamarskjold Memorial Scholarship Fund, set up in memory of the former UN secretary general, is designed mainly to help Third World journalists cover annual Assembly sessions.

Since its establishment in 1961, the fund has financed 114 young working journalists from 60 countries.

Samsudin will be the fourth Indonesian to have been granted the UN scholarship.

View JSON | Print