Westgate attack ‘hero’ overall winner in 2014 CNN Awards

Bento Venâncio, from Jornal Domingo and Brito Simango, from Televisão de Moçambique, posing with Victor Mlunde while holding their Portuguese Language General News Awards.

By Victor Mlunde

Last Saturday, the world witnessed a historic annual CNN-Multichoice Journalist Award ceremony on the continent, hosted for the first time in our commercial capital, Dar Es Salaam.

The choice of Tanzania is not only an unprecedented honor to the great peaceful nation on the continent, but a rare...

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The weekend commemorations of the first anniversary of the Westgate Mall revealed that it would take a long while yet for the pain to go away.

>Tanzania will host the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2014 Competition, it has been announced.

Survivors tell the story of Nairobi's Westgate siege

Kenya is marking a year since the attack by suspected Islamists on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre, in which at least 67 people were killed.

BBC News explains the background to the Westgate mall attack - and its consequences - in a 60-seconds.