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November 27 2006
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IPI Media Pioneer Award 2006 which was awarded to the Yemen Times for its distinguished coverage and bravery especially in human rights and democracy issues. The International Press Institute handed Raidan Al-Saqqaf the Award in February 2006 in Edinburgh
Al-Saqqaf established the Yemen Times, unified Yemens first and most widely-read English-language independent newspaper, in 1991, and was the winner of the N.P.C.’s International Award for Freedom of the Press for 1995. He was awarded this because of his reporting on the civil war in 1994 among other critical reporting.
Founded in 1990, the first edition of the Yemen Times newspaper came out on February 28, 1991. It was Yemen's first English language newspaper, and continues to be the country's only English newspaper. The paper pursues vigorously information gathering, and therefore, has offices and stringers all over the country. It supports press freedom, respect for human rights, political pluralism and democracy. It promotes Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and other forms of civil society organizations. At the economic front, it supports liberalization and open interaction with other nations. As its publisher and chief editor, Professor Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, says, \”We use the Yemen Times to make Yemen a good world citizen.\””
