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Richard Drasimaku

CONGO BASIN RJF GRANTEE

Rainforest
Journalism Fund
Congo Basin

Richard Drasimaku is an experienced journalist who has worked in the media production industry based in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda.

He has reported extensively on tourism, wildlife conservation, environment, agriculture, health and epidemics, education, politics, development, infrastructure, business, and refugees.

Drasimaku is skilled in photography, web content writing, investigative reporting, explanatory feature storytelling, solutions journalism, and geo-journalism. He is also a data journalist trained by Code for Africa Academy.

Drasimaku received a bachelor's in mass communication from Makerere University.

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