Africa Uncensored/KAS Africa Investigative Journalism Lab 2026 for Mid-career & Senior East African Journalists (Fully Funded to Mombasa, Kenya) – Opportunities For Africans

Application Deadline:  fifteenth August 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2026 Africa Uncensored/KAS Africa Investigative Journalism Lab. Africa Uncensored, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Regional Media Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa, is happy to invite functions for a one-week Advanced Investigative Journalism Training to be held in Mombasa, Kenya from 4th to eighth November 2026.

This intensive residential coaching is designed to sharpen the investigative abilities of practising journalists throughout East Africa and past. Participants will work instantly with skilled investigative reporters, editors, and digital forensics specialists to develop and strengthen real-world tales, whereas constructing abilities in knowledge journalism, supply safety, authorized frameworks, and digital verification.

Training Objectives

• Strengthen members’ capability to conceptualise, analysis, and execute high-impact investigative tales.
• Provide hands-on coaching in knowledge journalism, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and digital verification instruments.
• Equip journalists with information of authorized protections, security protocols, and moral concerns in investigative reporting.
• Foster a regional community of investigative journalists dedicated to accountability journalism.
• Support the event of not less than one publishable investigative story per participant by the tip of the coaching.

Requirements

This coaching is focused at:

• Mid-career and senior journalists with a minimal of three (3) years of energetic reporting expertise.
• Journalists who’ve beforehand labored on or expressed curiosity in investigative and accountability reporting.
• Staff reporters, freelancers, editors, and multimedia journalists actively engaged in reporting, investigative journalism, or editorial management from print, broadcast, and digital media shops.
• Journalists from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, and different African nations are inspired to apply.

Benefits

Selected members will obtain:

• Mentorship and editorial help from main investigative journalists.
• Training supplies, instruments and digital investigative strategies. 
• Full residential lodging in Mombasa for the period of the coaching.
• Return journey help for members based mostly exterior Mombasa.
• A certificates of participation upon profitable completion.

Applicants will probably be assessed on the next:

• Demonstrated expertise in journalism (portfolio of revealed work required).
• Quality and feasibility of the proposed investigative story pitch.
• Clarity of motivation and dedication to accountability journalism.
• Geographic and gender range will probably be taken into consideration; girls journalists are strongly inspired to apply.

To apply, please submit the next paperwork:

• A accomplished application type (accessible on the hyperlink beneath).
• A present résumé or Curriculum Vitae (not exceeding 3 pages).
• A quick investigative story pitch (300–500 phrases) outlining the story you would like to develop in the course of the coaching — embrace the difficulty, the general public curiosity angle, and potential sources.
• Three (3) samples of your revealed investigative or accountability journalism work (hyperlinks or PDFs).
• A letter of help out of your editor or media organisation (for employees journalists) or from a commissioning editor, media associate or skilled referee (for freelance journalists). 

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Africa Uncensored/KAS Africa Investigative Journalism Lab