MRCG Reveals Finalists for 2nd National Inclusive Anti-Conflict Awards
The Media Reform Coordinating Group-SL (MRCG-SL) has announced the list of finalists for the 2nd National Inclusive & Anti-Conflicts Awards 2024.
The award ceremony will be held on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at the Fifty-fifty Group Hall, Tower Hill, Freetown, Sierra Leone. The event will be attended by media experts, high-level personalities, journalists, and minority rights activists from the Engaging the Media and Minorities to Act for Peace Building (EMMAP) initiative.
The National Inclusive & Anti-Conflicts Awards received twenty-nine entries from Freetown and a few other districts in Sierra Leone. After a thorough review, three evaluators shortlisted six finalists:
- Alusine Rheme Wilson – Excessive Heat Grips Makeni
- Sia Patricia Ngevao – Forgotten Minorities
- Alfred Koroma – Mobile Money Transfer Problem
- Ibrahim Mansaray – Plastic & Climate Change
- Haroun Sani – Climate Change
- Kemo Cham – Mining/Civil War
Three winners will be announced at the awards ceremony.
The award is organized in partnership with Minority Rights Group Africa (MRGA) with funding from the European Union (EU), under the “Engaging Media and Minorities to Act for Peacebuilding” (EMMAP) Programme. EMMAP aims to raise public awareness of the interconnections between conflict, migration, and minority exclusion to help build and consolidate sustainable peace in Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Ghana.
