Nigeria: Premium Times Journalist, Five Others Selected for Unccd COP17 Media Fellowship in Mongolia

What the report says

PREMIUM TIMES journalist Abdulkareem Mojeed has been chosen for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s COP17 Media Reporting Fellowship, according to AllAfrica’s report from Premium Times. He is one of six journalists selected worldwide for the programme, and the only Nigerian on the list. The fellowship is tied to coverage of COP17, the UNCCD’s 17th Conference of the Parties, which is set to take place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The report says the UNCCD told Mojeed that the application pool was large and that his proposal stood out because of his reporting record and planned coverage. The other selected journalists come from Kenya, India, Spain, Brazil and Mexico. The fellowship is described as fully funded and designed to support reporting on desertification, land degradation and drought.

COP17 is expected to draw government, business and civil society leaders, scientists, youth, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists and smallholder farmers. The conference will focus on land restoration, drought resilience and sustainable land management, with wider discussions on how environmental degradation affects displacement, stability, food systems and livelihoods. Premium Times said Mojeed sees the fellowship as a chance to draw more attention to rangelands and grazing routes in Nigeria and across Africa. As background, his work has focused on environment and business reporting, including climate change, agriculture and food security.