Ghanaian multiple award-winning journalist and news presenter Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman has been awarded the prestigious Dag Hammarskjöld Fellowship.
This opportunity will allow him to learn about the United Nations and cover the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Fellowship, established in 1961 and named after the second UN Secretary-General who tragically died in a plane crash on a peace mission to Africa, offers journalists from developing countries a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the UN’s work.
Fellows spend three months at the UN headquarters in New York, where they observe international diplomacy and gain insights into global issues.
Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman, 30, of Ghana’s EIB Network is a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee and award-winning broadcast journalist and news presenter. His reporting focuses on global health inequities, social justice, and sustainable development.
He has reported globally, including from India, Rwanda, Malawi, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Dini-Osman is a five-time recipient of Ghana’s National Journalism Award (GJA Awards). In 2018, he won the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize, and in 2021, the International Center for Journalists’ Global Health Crisis Award for COVID-19 reporting.
His 2024 Covering Climate Now Award recognized his powerful reporting on the frustrations of Africans facing pressures to forgo fossil fuel-driven development and the deep-seated inequities in global climate negotiations.
Mr. Dini-Osman is also an inaugural recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the U.S. National Academies.
This year’s UN General Assembly will address urgent global challenges, including climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and the digital divide. It will also explore necessary reforms in global governance and emergency preparedness.
The Summit of the Future, which precedes the General Assembly, will unveil a “Pact for the Future,” covering topics from AI governance to space cooperation.
Dini-Osman will be joined by three other distinguished fellows: Mohammad Dawood from India, Haneen Saleh from Palestine, and Justicia Shipena from Namibia.
They were selected from approximately 150 applicants from 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Oceania.
