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Derrick Silimina
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Executive Writer, Freelance
Lusaka
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Biography
Derrick Silimina is a multi-media award-winning Journalist based in Lusaka Zambia. He is a shrewd Journalist with a passion to write about investigative stories, social justice, religion, economics, business and environment among others. His various media awards and articles have featured in many media platforms locally and abroad thereby boosting a positive outlook on his Journalism career through the public interest the stories have engendered in many nations. Derrick holds a Diploma in Journalism and Public Relations from the Zambia Institute of Mass communications (ZAMCOM). As a seasoned writer, Derrick is former Editor of Agricoop Newspaper – one of the leading tabloids in Zambia. He has been instrumental in the country’s media industry and continues to be an advocate of media freedom. Derrick is currently an Executive Writer for Solwezi Today Magazine and This is Zambia Magazine – one of the top business and Investment Magazines in the country. Among other awards he has won thus far include; 1. The Best Radio Journalist for the prestigious 2015 Airtel Media Excellency Awards. 2. Runners-up for the 2016 Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) Media Awards. 3. Best Radio Journalist for the 2016 Rural Electrification Authority (REA) Media Awards and 4. Best Print Journalist – Features category for the 2018 Agriculture and Commercial Society of Zambia (ACSZ) Media Awards.
economics,investigative stories religion, social justice business, and environment among others.
Court and Sports
Content
By Derrick Silimina| chinafrica.cn@ Participants pose for a group photo at the 2024 China-Zimbabwe Friendship Scholarship Awarding Ceremony in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 January (CHINESE EMBASSY IN ZIMBABWE)Tears of joy strea-med down Taurai Tawanda’s face upon learning that she had been awarded a scholarship under the China-Zimbabwe Friendship Scholarship Programme for academic excellence
By Derrick Silimina| chinafrica.cn@ Members of the 21st China Medical Team in Zimbabwe communicate with a local medical worker during a visit to the Mahusekwa District Hospital in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe, in July 2024(CHINA MEDICAL TEAM IN ZIMBABWE) Gertrude Nyathi walks calmly into Zimbabwe’s Mahusekwa Hospital for antenatal care in Mashonaland, where she is expected to give birth in the next five months
By Derrick Silimina| chinafrica.cn@ A fisherman processes his catch in Mwanza, Tanzania, on 11 June 2023 (XINHUA) In the village of Kilwa Masoko located some 300 km southeast of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital, fishing is a lifeline of locals as it is not only a source of food, but also a source of income. As wads of Tanzanian shilling exchange hands among fish famers and traders, the latter jostle to procure as much as possible of the limited amount of fish that is auctioned at Kilwa District’s old harbour
Company Info
Freelance
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De Pere, Wisconsin, United States