Knight Fellow Joachim Buwembo is leading a project to train journalists in 20 countries across Africa to cover how their governments are dealing with the threat of climate change.

Formerly a very successful Knight International Journalism Fellow in Tanzania, Joachim Buwembo is now working in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to form a network of journalists across Africa who cover climate change.

Buwembo is training journalists in five countries, with three additional experts training in 15 other African nations. Buwembo will knit together a cross-border network so that journalists covering climate change can share resources and collaborate on stories.

He is also preparing five journalists – one in each of the countries where he is working directly – to serve as trainers on covering climate change. Three editors of Tanzanian newspapers have agreed to dedicate regular coverage to climate-change issues.