East Africa: Making stress and trauma education essential

Kibrom Abrehe was a field correspondent at Tigray TV during the 2020-2023 war in the north of Ethiopia. Reporting from a conflict zone was a harrowing but important experience for him. “We saw people dying. We captured that on video. We edited and re-edited the footage. It’s difficult to express the pain. It’s stayed with me,” he explains.

Kibrom is one of the participants in a Fojo pilot project, where journalism educators and journalists come together to develop an extra-curricular course on stress and trauma for journalism students across Africa. The workshop is a pilot project under AGILE, a global programme designed to strengthen independent journalism by showcasing innovations and tools that contribute to sustainable media development.

Read Hiwot's full piece on the Fojo website: https://fojo.se/en/stronger-journalists-stronger-journalism-making-stress-and-trauma-education-essential/