Ghana’s Ridwan Osman bags best African Journalist in the TV category
Ghana’s multiple award-winning news anchor, Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman, from GHOne, has emerged as the Best African journalist in the TV category of the 2020 African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting (ACCER) Awards.
The event was held on the sidelines of the Fifth UN Environmental Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya.
While the pandemic has overwhelmed the news cycle and dominated headlines around the world, the young Journalist offered a rare perspective on used PPE disposal and gave comprehensive coverage of waste management gaps in Ghana’s response to the covid-19 pandemic.
Ridwan’s TV piece on Covid-19 waste disposal which has already received two awards from the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), and beat two renowned Kenyan science reporters, Zeynab Wandati and Sheila Sendeyo, both of NTV Kenya to win the coveted prize.
