Pierre-Alain Donnier (1 July 1946 – 13 March 1988) was a Swiss journalist who died while reporting from

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

about the United Nations Development Program (PNUD), on 13 March 1988 in the

Tibesti The Tibesti Mountains are a mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad, with a small portion located in southern Libya. The highest peak in the range, Emi Koussi, lies to the south at a height of and is ...

region. He was once quoted in the ''Gazette de Lausanne'' talking about Swiss journalism and he is the only journalist from Swiss television to have perished while on report. There is a Swiss television award named for him that is widely known.Africa on Film and Videotape: A Guide to Audio-visual Resources Available in Canada
page 37, 1990, Idera Films,

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1988 deaths Swiss television journalists 1946 births {{Switzerland-journalist-stub