THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) announces the call for entries for the 2025 COMESA Media Awards.
The award scheme is conducted annually to recognise and reward journalists who have contributed to regional integration by publishing and producing broadcast stories on the subject.
The objective of the awards is to promote reporting of COMESA regional integration projects, while raising public awareness, understanding, participation and ownership.
The organiser listed the parameters for eligible entries to include the following:
Relevance: The entry should address economic developmental issues relevant to regional integration such as trade, transport, aviation, energy, transport, ICT, investments, gender, agriculture among etc.
Regional dimension: The entry should have a regional dimension i.e. applying to or applicable to more than one regional State.
Knowing COMESA: The entry should demonstrate awareness about COMESA regional integration programmes. Information on COMESA programmes can be obtained from.
Works must have been published or broadcast in 2024 in Arabic, English or French. Journalists must be nationals of COMESA member states.
The deadline for the submission of application is January 31, 2025. interested applicants can apply here.
Blessing Otoibhi is a Multimedia Journalist and Anchor host for the News in 60 seconds at The International Center For Investigative Reporting. You can shoot her a mail via Botoibhi@icirnigeria.org or connect on Twitter @B_otoibhi