Star’s Fatuma Noor Wins CNN Award

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Leadership (Abuja) Kola Niyi-Eke 24 June 2011 The crisis at the Delta Steel Company (DSC) Aladja, Delta State, over non-payment of salaries close to three years is getting worse by the day. Expectedly, workers including an Indian supervisor, were yesterday locked out after protests which literarily paralysed business activities in the area

Award winning journalist Fatuma Noor of the Star newspaper has done it again.

Noor has been awarded the top prize at this year’s CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards for her investigative three-part series on the ‘Al-Shabaab’.

The series tells the story of young men who give up their freedom abroad to return and fight for the Al-Shabaab. Kenyan journalists scooped five awards with the other Kenyan winners being Beryl Ooro of (K24),Daily Nation’s Kamau Mutunga, Sylvia Chebet and Kimani Githae of Citizen TV.

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Star’s Fatuma Noor Wins CNN Award