Nominations open for COMESA Media Awards 2025

The Award scheme is conducted every year to recognize and reward journalists who have contributed to regional integration by publishing and producing broadcast stories on the subject.

Objective

• The objective of the Awards is to promote reporting of COMESA regional integration projects hence raising public awareness, understanding and participation and ownership.
• The parameters for eligible entries include the following:
  • Relevance: The entry should address economic developmental issues relevant to regional integration such as trade, transport, aviation, energy, transport, ICT, investments, gender, agriculture among etc.
  • Regional dimension: The entry should have a regional dimension i.e. applying to or applicable to more than one regional State.
  • Knowing COMESA: The entry should demonstrate awareness about COMESA regional integration programmes. Information on COMESA programmes can be obtained from.

Categories

• Entries shall consist of the following:
  • Print Journalism: Features/articles should consist of a minimum 700 words and maximum 1,500 words published in mainstream newspapers, magazines/ journals and newsletters.
  • Radio Journalism: Documentary or discussion programmes of minimum 5 (five) minutes and maximum 10 (ten) minutes duration and not exceeding 15MB;
  • Television Journalism: Documentary or discussion programme of minimum 5 (five) minutes and maximum 10 (ten) minutes duration and not exceeding 15MB.
  • Online/new media: Features/articles of a minimum 700 (seven hundred words) and maximum 1,500 (One thousand five hundred) words published in mainstream newspapers (including online editions), magazines and reputable journals.

Eligibility Criteria

• The awards are open for published and broadcasted works in the fields of print, radio, television, and online media. Only journalists who are from COMESA Member States are eligible for the competition.
• The competition is open to individual journalists and not media institutions or organisations.

Application Requirements

• All works entered for the competition shall be in one of the COMESA official languages, namely English, French and Arabic.
• All works submitted must be original and in conformity with copyright requirements.

For more information, visit COMESA.