Jamal Osman , Africa Correspondent
Jamal Osman is Africa Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Jamal Osman is a multi-award winning journalist and filmmaker specialising sub-Saharan Africa. He has been working with ITN/Channel 4 News since 2008. Jamal has scooped interviews with Somali pirates, the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, Al-Shabab, exposed the illegal trade in UN food aid and told the struggles of Somali athletes training for the Olympics.
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Cancer patients struggling to die with dignity in Malawi
A topic we do not often like to talk about: dying.
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The ‘catastrophic’ impact of Ugandans leaving to work in NHS
But three quarters of a century into its existence, the NHS seems to need ever more doctors and nurses to keep it going.
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Inside Dadaab: life in one of the world’s largest refugee camps
What happens to all those forced to abandon their homes and seek safety in the first safe country they get to?
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Sudan crisis: thousands flee to Ethiopia as fighting gets worse
Fighting in Khartoum between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary RSF group shows no sign of abating despite diplomatic talks taking place in Saudi Arabia.
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The vigilante movement targeting immigrants to ‘clean up’ communities in South Africa
A movement accused of violence and xenophobia is targeting immigrants in areas struggling with soaring poverty, unemployment and crime.
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South Africa gripped by kidnapping crisis
There’s growing alarm at the number of kidnappings being reported in South Africa.
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Videos showing sexual exploitation of Somali women shared online
We have been investigating the sexual exploitation of Somali women, who’ve been filmed while being assaulted and then blackmailed and shamed online.
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Mental illness in Uganda: millions abandoned without diagnosis, drugs or support [Dubbed]
Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health.
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Mental illness in Uganda: millions abandoned without diagnosis, drugs or support
Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health.
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Chimps have killed or injured dozens of children in Uganda (dubbed)
In Uganda, the encroachment of settlements into the country’s western forests has sparked a battle between humans and chimpanzees.
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UN accuses Rwanda of fuelling conflict in DR Congo
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an increasingly bloody conflict between the country’s armed forces and a Tutsi militia group has displaced hundreds of thousands, and threatens to bring chaos to central Africa.
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Baby reunited with her father after Al-Shabaab bombing (Dubbed)
Deadly bombings at the hands of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Shabaab group have now become tragically commonplace in Somalia.
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Baby reunited with her father after Al-Shabaab bombing
Deadly bombings at the hands of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Shabaab group have now become tragically commonplace in Somalia.
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Somalia on edge of famine as country suffers worst drought in 40 years
Two climate emergencies – one from a deadly shortage of water; one from too much, killing and uprooting people on a vast scale.
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Ethiopia Tigray war: Fighting shatters five-month truce
In Ethiopia a tentative truce between the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, known as the TPLF, has been shattered by fighting, The break in the five-month ceasefire deals a blow to any hope of peace talks to end the conflict, which has cost thousands of lives and displaced millions of people. Today, an…
