Applications for the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship 2024 are now open.

This Scholarship, named in honor of two reporters assassinated on November 2, 2013 in Kidal, northern Mali, awards a young African journalist and a young technician each year.

Ten candidate journalists and ten candidate technicians will be chosen based on their applications and invited to attend workshops hosted by RFI’s internal training department at the SRTB headquarters in Cotonou from October 14 to 29, 2024.

The scholarship will be awarded on November 2, the United Nations’ designated “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists” in memory of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon.

The scholarship will be awarded at a ceremony in Cotonou. The winners will benefit from a one-month training course in Paris.

Benefits

  • The winners will benefit from a one-month fully-funded training course in Paris.

Eligibility

  • Open to all young journalists and reporting technicians under the age of 35 who have already worked in the radio field for at least two years;
  • Reside in one of the following French-speaking countries: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Tunisia and Rwanda.

Application

To participate, you must download and send to [email protected]:

  • The Participation Form with the boxes correctly checked, your CV and your cover letter.
  • A report or sound element for journalists, an edit/mix or on-air production for technicians. These sound elements must not exceed 2’30.

For more information, visit Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship.

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