Ticky Monekosso
Ticky Monekosso, native of Cameroon, was the First African journalist accredited as a permanent press correspondent with the UN’s Geneva Headquarters (1995-2005), since the creation of the organisation in 1945 and above with the League of Nations in 1920.
She received the International Press Award from the Association Mondiale des Amis de L'Enfan, a prestigious international press award for her article (West Africa's child slave trade) written for BBC News Online.
Not only is it the first article written in English to win the annual award from the Monaco based non-governmental organisation but it is also the first time the prize has gone to a piece of online journalism.
Amade, which translates as World Association for the Friends of Children, was founded by Princess Grace of Monaco in 1963, and the award was presented in Monaco by her daughter Caroline - now the Princess of Hanover.
With more than 30 years in reporting on Human rights, development issues and related humanitarian affairs in Africa, she makes no secret of the fact that she contributes to a range of media outlets and that she also prepare special and expert in-depth reports including those related to business companies and Immigration courts/Tribunals.
This is backed by aspects of her education including my academic studies in International relations and her professional training in mass communications studies and journalism, where she studied the theory of “Information and Evidence”.
Being raised in a diplomatic and multicultural environment, she is a very discrete person as she is aware of the courtesies and protocol that must be taken into account in engaging with the international community.
However as an investigative journalist and the founder of Afromedi@net - a Network of journalist and independent experts specialising in the affairs of Africa - she has wide experience of grassroots engagements, in contacts with projects at community level and in working with individuals from a broad range of backgrounds. That made all the difference in my work as a journalist and researcher.
Based in the Grand Geneva’s areas (France-voisine) since 1993, she is also elected as a member of the Municipal council in a French rural village, where she share local cross-borders and European issues.
She received the International Press Award from the Association Mondiale des Amis de L'Enfan, a prestigious international press award for her article (West Africa's child slave trade) written for BBC News Online.
Not only is it the first article written in English to win the annual award from the Monaco based non-governmental organisation but it is also the first time the prize has gone to a piece of online journalism.
Amade, which translates as World Association for the Friends of Children, was founded by Princess Grace of Monaco in 1963, and the award was presented in Monaco by her daughter Caroline - now the Princess of Hanover.
With more than 30 years in reporting on Human rights, development issues and related humanitarian affairs in Africa, she makes no secret of the fact that she contributes to a range of media outlets and that she also prepare special and expert in-depth reports including those related to business companies and Immigration courts/Tribunals.
This is backed by aspects of her education including my academic studies in International relations and her professional training in mass communications studies and journalism, where she studied the theory of “Information and Evidence”.
Being raised in a diplomatic and multicultural environment, she is a very discrete person as she is aware of the courtesies and protocol that must be taken into account in engaging with the international community.
However as an investigative journalist and the founder of Afromedi@net - a Network of journalist and independent experts specialising in the affairs of Africa - she has wide experience of grassroots engagements, in contacts with projects at community level and in working with individuals from a broad range of backgrounds. That made all the difference in my work as a journalist and researcher.
Based in the Grand Geneva’s areas (France-voisine) since 1993, she is also elected as a member of the Municipal council in a French rural village, where she share local cross-borders and European issues.