User:Moussa KONDO/sandbox

KONDO MOUSSA, Kondo Moussa is a former basketball player, now journalist, with over 10 years experience in various community development activities, particularly education and sport programs for young people. Founder of the weekly printed newspaper, L’Express de Bamako, and president of NPO, Giving Back Mali, he helps with sustainable development through the education of young people in leadership, promotes a high level of sport practice (particularly in basketball), and runs internship programs on journalism. Some of the youth in his program have obtained scholarships for the USA, Spain, and Japan to study in prestigious schools and improve their sports skills. After his Master’s degree from The University of Bamako and his community service experiences Moussa has been selected among the 500 Most Valuable African Young Leaders in 2015 as Mandela Washington Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) of the US President Barack Obama. He studied Business and Entrepreneurship Track in Dartmouth College, an Ivy League Institution based in Hanover, New Hampshire (USA). Moussa works since January 2016 as Projects Manager in Liberia for the Accountability Lab, an NGO which aims to empower Young Journalists and Entrepreneurs for the future of Liberia.