The HumAngle Fellowship on Reporting Conflict and Missing Persons for middle-career and senior journalists in Nigeria (Fully Funded)

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Application Deadline: October 14, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 HumAngle Fellowship on Reporting Conflict and Missing Persons. HumAngle, in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is looking for functions from middle-career and senior journalists in Nigeria for a 3-day fellowship on reporting battle and lacking individuals. The fellowship might be held in Abuja between November 4–6, 2025, with individuals arriving in Abuja on November 3 and departing on November 7.  

All individuals should decide to the coaching in its entirety. It might be an pleasurable however rigorous expertise, so make sure to apply provided that your job is keen to allow you to take time without work for the coaching. Freelancers are welcome to apply: we don’t discriminate. 

Through the 3-day rigorous coaching, 10 chosen senior and mid-career journalists from Nigeria might be launched to a variety of periods that may higher equip them to report these tales in trauma-informed and moral methods. 

Some of the areas to be coated are:

• The nitty-gritty of human-centred battle reporting: What are some trauma-informed frameworks to make use of when talking with weak sources? How do you get them to open up? How ought to the enhancing course of go? What is chiseled out and what stays?
• Understanding and reporting Nigeria’s lacking individuals downside: What is the scope of the issue? What do the legal guidelines say? How will we work together with victims’ households?
• Psychosocial finest practices to maintain in thoughts for journalists and sources alike.
• What is the place of radicalism and extremism in all this? 

Requirements

HumAngle is trying for battle reporters who assume very deeply in regards to the craft and mechanics of the career. 

• If you spend time reciting a sentence over and over once more to weigh whether or not or not it rolls off the tongue easily sufficient, we wish to hear from you. 
• If you spend hours after an interview with a delicate supply, pondering how finest you may shield them in the storytelling with out compromising the story’s integrity, we wish to hear from you. 
• If you end up consistently pondering earlier than an interview: how can I guarantee this supply is as snug with me as potential? Hit the apply button under instantly. 
• If you agonize over the potential for retraumatizing victims of violence throughout an interview, it is best to have despatched in your application yesterday. 

Benefits

• The fellowship is absolutely funded; all prices, together with flights, lodging, and meals, might be coated by HumAngle.
  

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the HumAngle Fellowship on Reporting Conflict and Missing Persons