Gerald C. KoinyenehReporting Fellow, FrontPage Africa

Gerald C. Koinyeneh is a Liberian journalist who reports for FrontPage Africa. He serves as a senior reporter and covers the Liberian Legislature. Gerald is also a media trainer for the Journalists for Human Rights’ anti COVID-19 project called the Mobilizing Media to Fight COVID-19 Project. He is also benefiting from the United States Embassy to Liberia’s journalism fellowship program. Gerald is a beneficiary of the United Nations Least Developed Countries’ Journalism Fellowship Program for the coverage of the UN 5th Conference for the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) sponsored by the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), in partnership with the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).

He is a 2018 graduate of the University of Liberia (BSc in General Forestry) and the Peter Quaqua School of Journalism (PQSJ) in 2016. He writes extensively on Liberian Politics, as well as environmental and human rights issues. In addition, he is also the President of the Wildlife Conservation Reporters Association of Liberia, working with several pro environmental organizations to report on Liberia’s wildlife and rich biodiversity.