Copyright: Tomáš Halász https://www.facebook.com/To.mas.photography

As you may have read in earlier posts East4South is a unique journalism project that enables African journalists to research and produce stories with journalists from Eastern European countries.

Ten African journalists recently teamed up with ten Eastern European journalists for the third cycle of the East4South. The European journalists travelled through the home country of their African partner to research stories. Then together they produce their stories at the DW Akademie in Bonn.

The latest group brought back materials to produce a diverse range of stories from milk farming in South Africa, the struggles of Congolese female politicians to the glitz of Nigeria’s Nollywood, the world’s second largest film-making industry.

The East4South programme brings together young journalists from Eastern Europe with experienced journalists from Africa to produce stories together. Now in its third cycle, 10 Eastern European journalists are about to travel to Africa in the next few months to work with their African counterparts.

Balazs Simonyi is a freelance Hungarian photojournalist and filmmaker. Through the East4South programme he travelled to the Gulu district in northern Uganda and to Mayuge in the south-east where he worked with Joshua Kyalimpa on two video stories. One was about rehabilitation of former child soldiers, the other examined fishing and how fish caught in Victoria Lake end up on European dinner tables.

Author: Guy Degen