2007 Recipients
Benson G.O. Amollo
| Kenya
| Kenya Times News Services
|  Benson is a senior writer on political and social issues for the Times News Service, which publishes Kenya Times and Sunday Times. He covers parliament and writes a weekly column analyzing legislation policy and scrutinizing parliamentary proceedings. In his short career he has gained a reputation as a proficient writer and hard-working, reliable professional with rare drive, enthusiasm and eagerness to go to any length and meet any challenge to accomplish his assignments. He hopes that covering the General Assembly might give him "a visionary diagnosis to what stretch parliamentary journalism in Africa should be."
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Agnes Asiimwe
| Uganda
| NTV Uganda
|  Agnes is currently a writer for NTV Uganda, is known for her initiative, persistence, strong focus, and drawing no boundaries as a journalist -- one who translates ordinary ideas into moving stories. She has taken a critical approach on issues affecting Ugandans such as the environment, health and war, extensively covering the AIDS epidemic, the Lords Resistance Army war in northern Uganda and various issues affecting women and children. Asiimwe says she sees the fellowship as an opportunity for an African journalist to cover African issues. "I will be able to report from the perspective of my people. As an African journalist, I understand better the social and economic ills that Africans live through daily -- the extreme poverty, disease, hunger and war. My stories will address the real concerns of the ordinary people and Uganda," she says.
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Maria Jose Borges
| Uruguay
| El Observador
|  María, 26, writes about social and health issues and culture for El Observador daily newspaper in Montevideo, Uruguay. A highlight of her young career has been a report on Genzyme, a Boston laboratory producing medicine for genetic and rare diseases. A motivated, hard working journalist known for her interviews and narrative writing, Borges has been praised as one of the most promising journalists at the newspaper. Borges says she feels that as a reporter at one of her country's most important newspapers, she has a "responsibility to do something for my society."
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Tony Hotland
| Indonesia
| The Jakarta Post
|  Tony reports on politics and major policy issues as he covers the Indonesian presidency for The Jakarta Post. A major reporting assignment was the 2004 tsunami in Aceh, where he filed some of the Post's best stories combining straight news with human interest features. One of the paper's most promising and reliable journalists, he has also covered human rights issues, poverty alleviation programs, the collision between the interests of business and environmentalists, the Finance and Environment Ministries, police headquarters, and the House of Representatives. In addition, Hotland coaches new reporters and edits articles from correspondents. Strongly compassionate about his profession, Hotland says that his main objective for his fellowship is to bring home "a greater understanding of this key international gathering where the frameworks of international relations are set up, evaluated or revamped."
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