Seventeen FAIR members, hailing from a total of nine African countries, will represent the African investigative journalism profession at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The GIJC 2010 is to be held in that city between 22 and 25 april.

The GIJC 2010 organizing committee selected the participants, who all qualify for the high professional standard attached to this year's GIJC grants round, and who will all be either speakers or panelists at the conference, from a total of 60 African grant applications. CNN African TV news and TV features 2009 winner, John-Allan Namu, from Kenya, also received a grant to attend the conference.

The full list of FAIR members who will be participating in the GIJC Geneva is therefore:

Frank Nyakairu, FAIR chairman, panelist 'human trafficking'
Fatuma Noor, Panelist 'piracy panel'
Eric Mwamba Jibikilay, Panelist 'sports investigations'
Denoua Edouard Gonto, Panelist 'toxic waste dumping'
Emmanuel Mayah, Panelist 'human trafficking'
Kassim Mohamed, Panelist 'piracy panel'
Kennethy Opala Ingabo, Panelist 'piracy panel'
Mary Fianko Akuffo, Panelist 'investigating the mining industry'
John Grobler, Panelist 'investigating the mining industry'
Theophilus Abbah, Panelist 'exposing nepotism'
Stefaans Brummer, Panelist 'business models for investigative reporting'
Evelyn Groenink, FAIR HQ, Panelist 'business models for investigative reporting'
Charles Rukuni, FAIR  HQ, Panelist 'business models for investigative reporting'
Olukayode Thomas, Panelist 'sports corruption'
Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Panelist 'undercover reporting'
Justin Arenstein, FAIR special envoy (US)
Solomon Adebayo, Panelist 'investigative radio reporting'

For details on the conference programme, panels and speakers, click www.gijc2010.ch.