Jamal Osman , Africa Correspondent
Jamal Osman is Africa Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Jamal Osman is a multi-award winning journalist and filmmaker specialising sub-Saharan Africa. He has been working with ITN/Channel 4 News since 2008. Jamal has scooped interviews with Somali pirates, the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, Al-Shabab, exposed the illegal trade in UN food aid and told the struggles of Somali athletes training for the Olympics.
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Meet the homeless women in Ethiopia using wild dogs for protection
Thousands of displaced women and children fleeing Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict have found refuge in the country’s capital Addis Ababa.
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Kenya push for carbon capture profits threat to indigenous forest people
They’re one of the last remaining forest-dwelling groups in Kenya. But the Ogiek people are being evicted from their ancestral lands by the government – their homes destroyed.
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‘Corruption is genocide’ – Kenya’s Gen Z protester taking on the government
In Kenya, a protest movement spearheaded by Gen Z is taking on the political elite. 75% of the population is under 35.
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DRC: Inside the world’s forgotten war (dubbed)
The UN describes it as “one of the world’s most neglected crises”. The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to war, but fighting has dramatically intensified in recent months. Just as the UN peacekeeping force is leaving after more than 20 years.
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Somali pirates: Highest number of attacks in over a decade (Dubbed)
Somali pirates appear to be making a comeback. Attacks around the Horn of Africa have risen sharply – adding to the risks posed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeting ships in the Red Sea.
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Kush: A drug sometimes mixed with human bones is ravaging Sierra Leone
It’s so addictive, users become hooked after a single hit, then find themselves quickly trapped in a cycle of self-destruction.
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Cookstoves: Is the multibillion dollar carbon offset market flawed?
If you’ve booked a flight recently, you might have been offered the chance to cancel out your journey’s carbon emissions, just by clicking a box.
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Cancer patients struggling to die with dignity in Malawi
A topic we do not often like to talk about: dying.
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The ‘catastrophic’ impact of Ugandans leaving to work in NHS
But three quarters of a century into its existence, the NHS seems to need ever more doctors and nurses to keep it going.
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Inside Dadaab: life in one of the world’s largest refugee camps
What happens to all those forced to abandon their homes and seek safety in the first safe country they get to?
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Sudan crisis: thousands flee to Ethiopia as fighting gets worse
Fighting in Khartoum between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary RSF group shows no sign of abating despite diplomatic talks taking place in Saudi Arabia.
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The vigilante movement targeting immigrants to ‘clean up’ communities in South Africa
A movement accused of violence and xenophobia is targeting immigrants in areas struggling with soaring poverty, unemployment and crime.
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South Africa gripped by kidnapping crisis
There’s growing alarm at the number of kidnappings being reported in South Africa.
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Videos showing sexual exploitation of Somali women shared online
We have been investigating the sexual exploitation of Somali women, who’ve been filmed while being assaulted and then blackmailed and shamed online.
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Mental illness in Uganda: millions abandoned without diagnosis, drugs or support [Dubbed]
Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health.
