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Jamal Osman
Somali
World Food Programme
Shot in Somalia and Kenya, April-June 2009
SMI Productions for ITN / Channel 4 News Independent Fund
The head of the United Nations aid operation in Somalia launched an inquiry after this film revealed wholesale corruption in its aid operation there.
It exposes food theft on a massive scale, refugees forced to pay for aid at gunpoint and a network of corrupt businessmen profiteering from the country’s suffering. Jamal also captures images at a refugee camp which shows the refugees preparing boiled leaves - the only source of food.
The judges praised the “brave and powerful” camerawork and described the film as a brilliant piece of investigative journalism. One said: “It is impossible to exaggerate the difficulties of filming in Somalia even for a native Somali like Jamal.”
Biography
Jamal Osman came to Britain as a refugee from Somalia in 1999. He worked as a labourer for a number of years before starting a media course at South Thames College in 2005. He then began a journalism degree at Kingston University.
He has been working for Channel 4 News and broadcasters, including Kenya Television Network and Universal Television, since the end of his second year.
