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Continental Reinsurance firm Honours Top African Journalists at Virtual Awards Ceremony

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By Ajuma Edwina Ogiri
A Leading Pan African Reinsurance firm, Continental Reinsurance Plc, has honoured winners of its 2020 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards at a virtual awards ceremony.
 
In the fifth edition of the awards, five winners were picked from 77 entries submitted by business reporters from 15 French and English-countries under four categories.
The categories are Best re/insurance Print Article, Best re/insurance Online Article, Best re/insurance Broadcast Article and Best re/insurance French Article – print/online/broadcast.
Isaac Khisa, who writes for The Independent Uganda, emerged the winner for the Best re/insurance Print Article; English category, with his story, titled “Across Sub-Saharan Africa, tech-enabled micro-insurance is the next big thing”.
 
The story describes how insurance firms can leverage on the growing mobile phone subscription to extend insurance services to the low income earners who are, in most cases, not catered for under the current conventional insurance services.
David Njagi, a freelance journalist from Kenya, bagged the award for the Best re/insurance Online Article; English category, for his feature “Voice of resilience: Kenyan radio builds herders’ trust in drought insurance”, which was published in Thomson Reuters.
The story focuses on how a community-based radio is helping Northern Kenya understand and learn how to benefit from Islamic weather insurance (Takaful).
The award for the Best re/insurance Broadcast Article; English category, went to Destiny Onyemihia, Voice of Nigeria, Nigeria, for his story, “Sustaining businesses through cyber insurance”.
Onyemihia’s story explores how businesses can sustain their operations in the midst of the rising cyber threats and attacks in the country.
For the French category, Joel Assoko , Jeune Afrique Media Group, France, emerged the winner for the Best re/insurance French Article, print/online/broadcast, for his story, ‘‘La guerre des assureurs aura bien lieu’’, translated as “Indeed, the War among Insurers will take place”.
The Future Talent Award was won by Domonic Omondi, The Standard Group, Kenya, for his inspiring article titled: “How doctors are dragging medical insurers to early grave”, which addresses the issue of perverse incentives, and how insurance companies in Kenya have sunk into losses as healthcare providers inflate their charges.
In recognition of the winners’ participation and exemplary reporting, Continental Reinsurance will offer a cash prize of USD2000 for Future Talent Award, USD1000 for the category winners and USD500 for the 1st and 2nd runner-up positions.
All the winners will also benefit from mentorship on re/insurance reporting.
During the virtual event, the Group CEO, Continental Reinsurance, Dr Femi Oyetunji, noted: “We hope that these awards inspire you to cover issues related to re/insurance and improve the overall quality of reporting.
“We will continue to support and build capacity for journalists so they can contribute to the development of the re/insurance industry in Africa.
“Even though we’ve seen the number of entries double over the years, we wish to encourage more female participants to enter for future awards.”
All the entries were evaluated by an independent judging panel consisting of international experts in insurance and journalism.
“It’s been a particularly strong year for submissions. As chair of the international panel of esteemed judges, I can tell you that choosing the winners wasn’t very easy this time around,” the Chief Judge, Michael Wilson, commented.
Other judges includes Nadia Mensah-Acogny (Journalist, Forbes Afrique) – Senegal; Dr. Jared Obuya, Lecturer, Moi University – Kenya; Kenneth Igbomor, Market News Editor (West Africa), CNBC Africa – Nigeria; Gareth Stokes, Founder, Stokes Media Group – South Africa; and Shiamdass Appannah, Insurance Industry Expert – Mauritius.
The 15 countries whose journalists participated in the awards were: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Botswana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Malawi, Zambia and Namibia (Anglophone).
Francophone countries represented were Morocco, Cameroon and Benin.
This year’s award ceremony was scheduled to take place during the Continental Re’s 7th CEO Summit in Morocco.
The event was however cancelled due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen many countries institute measures to contain the spread of the virus, including imposing tough travel restrictions.

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