Yero S. Bah

Yero S. Bah is a multiple award-winning Gambian/African journalist with nine years of experience in journalism and communications. He has been published in numerous prominent African media outlets, including the African Press Agency in Senegal, Mansa Banko Online in The Gambia, Social Voices and Nigeria Health Watch in Nigeria, Connecting Africa in South Africa, and Expresso media organization in Lisbon, Portugal. Recognized for his outstanding contributions, Yero won the 2024 Best Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Reporting in West Africa and the 2023 Business and Finance Reporting award from The Gambia Press Union National Journalism Awards. In 2022, the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists in Canada awarded him as one of the top ten Best Agricultural Reporters and Communicators globally. He was honored with the Best Agriculture Reporter Award by The Gambia Press Union National Journalism Excellence Awards in 2021. Bah was a finalist in the top twenty-five migration journalists in West Africa by the West Africa Media Foundation in Accra, Ghana, in 2022. Yero has extensive experience across print, radio broadcasting, and online media, covering various topics such as migration, health, agriculture, business, finance, tech, climate change, entrepreneurship, women, and youth. In addition to his journalism career, Yero is a civic leader who regularly volunteers and is a 2018 Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) fellow in Accra, Ghana. Bah is also a member of the Pan-African Youth Parliament 2026 and among 50 African and European journalists for a six-month online training on environmental investigation across borders.