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The Ascension Island transmitting station is a shortwave transmitting facility in the English Bay area of Ascension Island. The facility was opened by the BBC in 1966 to broadcast the BBC World Service to Africa and South America. [1] The site is owned and operated by Encompass Digital Media.
Occupation (s) Journalist, broadcaster. Television. Newsday. Africa Business Report. Talking Business Africa. Lerato Mbele[1] is a South African journalist and broadcaster working for the BBC. Mbele currently presents Talking Business Africa for the network. She previously presented the Africa Business Report and Newsday.
Career. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Brown worked on South African newspapers Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail. [3] Early in her career she interviewed Nelson Mandela on Robben Island. [2] Brown hosts the BBC World Service 's Focus on Africa podcast, [4] and has presented BBC Radio 4 's Pick of the Week. [5]
BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces a bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa, Swahili and French. The series focuses on topics that are of interest and concern to young and ...
Focus on Africa (TV programme) Awards. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Africans. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Kenyans. Sophie Ikenye is a BBC news presenter from Kenya. [1] She is a main presenter for Focus on Africa (TV programme) on BBC World News. She worked in the broadcasting industry in Kenya for 12 years before joining the BBC.
Bilikisu Labaran. Bilkisu Labaran is a Nigerian journalist, editor and head of Africa News & Current affairs at BBC. [2] [3] She played a vital role in the establiment of BBC pidgin [4] [5] and is the first Nigerian BBC editor. She currently works as an executive at BBC Africa Eye documentaries [6]
Reward (s) Training at BBC News. First awarded. 2015; 9 years ago (2015) Currently held by. Paa Kwesi Asare (2023) The Komla Dumor Award is a journalism award launched by the BBC [1][2] in 2015 in honour of the legacy of Ghanaian journalist Komla Dumor who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme Focus on Africa.
Uduak Amimo is a journalist of Kenyan origin. She hosted the current affairs talk show, Cheche, on Citizen TV, which is part of the Royal Media Services stable between 2012 and 2017. Before returning to Kenya, Amimo worked for several international media organisations, including the BBC World Service, [ 1] Voice of America and Reuters.