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About Zahira
Eric Kawa is an award-winning  Multilingual journalist based in Freetown, Sierra Leone with a B.A  in Mass Communication from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He is part of the first CNN Academy Climate Storytelling Cohort sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation; with  a Special Recognition Award from the CNN Academy.

Eric serves as a Correspondent for Africanews and works with Capital Radio, Sierra Leone. He also contributes to China Global Television Network (CGTN) and The Voice of America (VOA). Eric has worked with several media outlets in Sierra Leone including: Star Radio/TV. He has also served as a fixer for BBC Africa and CGTN. He has contributed to several News Channels including: BBC Afrique, Joy News, GH One TV, Starr FM and TV3 in Ghana and WADR (French/English Service) in Senegal. He is also 
the Business Development Representative for Afripods’ Broadcast to Podcast in Sierra Leone.
He owns and produces ‘Weekly Splash’ and '120 Seconds Countdown with Eric,' both programs are youth focused and edu-taining. Eric is also a Voice Over Artist and a Blogger/Vlogger and Event Host/Moderator.

He is recognised as one of Sierra Leone’s ‘100 Most Influential Youths’ by Sierra Youth Magazine through the Ministry of Youth (2018/19).
In 2023, a leading publication in Sierra Leone ‘Salone Times’ recognised him as one of the ‘10 Most Influential Sierra Leoneans.’
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90% of Sierra Leone’s population depends on charcoal and firewood for cooking. Statistics from the Clean Cooking Alliance show that 2.4 billion people around the world depend on food cooked over polluting open fires or inefficient stoves.
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