As a West African freelance journalist, Jefferson Kwamina Sackey has been a globetrotting reporter for almost six years, covering armed conflicts,political upheavals and natural disasters in hot spots around the world. All that fieldwork served as a warm-up for 2005, an extra ordinary year that took him to the front lines in post conflict, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Rwanda, forever changing his view of his life, his career and how it all fits together. Among the “no go” areas that Jefferson has ventured, is an interview he conducted with Sekou Damate Conneh, a rebel leader and one of the 22 presidential candidates of the last held elections in Liberia. It was the uprising of this man that sent Charles Taylor into exile. He also relishes his interview with Mrs Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson before and after her election as the first female African President. Jefferson has been quite adventurous and daring considering that together with his crew, he spent three days with a family who have seriously been affected by the war in Liberia at Lower Margibi, “It was quite an experience as they shared their experiences with me, a family of 25 who share only two cups of rice.”

While he was TV Africa’s Presidential correspondent, in 2003-2005 Jefferson covered most of the major national and global news stories and conducted in-depth interviews with very important newsmakers.

Among these were then German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, former AU Chairman and President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ivory Coast rebel leader, Giumme Soro and a host of others.

Jefferson Sackey also had an exclusive interview with Former President Rawlings in 2004 after his controversial appearance at the National Reconciliation Commission. He has also engaged in live on-air chats with DW TV’s Amrita Cheema and Melinda Crane on “Quadriga’ the talk show for International journalists and VOA’s Senior Editor and host of “Straight Talk Africa”, Shaka Ssali.

In Nigeria, he visited the presidential palace of President Olusegun Obasanjo and was closely linked to the personal assistant of the president who was very supportive of him. He also had access to the Special Court of Sierra Leone and covered very sensitive issues with regard to Liberia on how Charles Taylor was overthrown, and some events in Rwanda, Cambodia, Germany and the UK.

 As an International Journalist, Jefferson Kwamina Sackey has twice been a guest on “Quadriga” the International talk show for journalists on DW TV and has conducted live television reports from Addis Ababa, Abuja and the UN Headquarters in New York.