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Burundian
reporter Eloge Willy Kaneza Image source: bujanews.wordpress.com
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A Burundian
reporter has won an international award for courageous journalism.
BBC Africa Live report continues:
Eloge
Willy Kaneza and his colleagues had found "creative ways to push back
on repression using online technologies,” organizers of the Peter Mackler
Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism said in a statement.
Mr Kaneza Eloge
is the public face of SOS Media Burundi, a collective of mostly anonymous
journalists formed after the closure of radio stations during the May
2015 coup attempt against President Pierre Nkurunziza.
Using smartphones and mobile applications, the 34-year-old Kaneza and his colleagues "work under difficult circumstances as the only source of news for their countrymen and those outside Burundi", the organizers said.
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