Ouagadougou, Burkinabè journalist Mariam Ouédraogo, reporter for the public daily Sidwaya, is currently staying in Washington where she will receive the ICFJ Knight 2023 international journalism prize on November 2, the AIB learned this Tuesday from the winner .
“Everything is going well, we are preparing for the award ceremony. I have to give a speech and I am in rehearsal,” Ms. Ouédraogo told the AIB by telephone from the American capital.
Named winner of this prize in recognition of her reporting on the ordeal of women victims of terrorists, Mariam Ouédraogo will receive a trophy and an envelope during a ceremony scheduled for November 2 in Washington, according to a program consulted by the AIB.
Upon her arrival in the United States on October 29, she took part in a welcome dinner offered by the International Journalism Center, promoter of the ICFJ Knight Prize.
On this occasion, Burkinabe journalism met the interim ambassador of Burkina Faso to the United States, Jean Baptiste Gagré, the press attaché, Servace Maryse Dabou and the head of the protocol service.
The interim ambassador took the opportunity to salute the International Journalism Center for the distinction granted to a compatriot, she recalled.
“The embassy also promised to be by my side until the award ceremony on November 2,” she added.
She also confided that she had opportunely taken part in a prayer meeting of Burkinabè living in Washington.
Former intern and collaborator of the Burkina Faso Information Agency (AIB), Mariam Ouédraogo won in Ouagadougou, on October 21, 2023, the Norbert Zongo international prize for investigative journalism (PAJI-NZ) in written press and the prize Marie Soleil Brother of the best journalist in Burkina Faso.
Trained at the Institute of Information and Communication Sciences (ISTIC), she has 4 international prizes to her credit, including the Bayeux-Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents Prize, as well as 16 national prizes.
Source: Burkina Information Agency