Award-winning journalist Mercy Juma is set to leave the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) after serving at the media house for close to 8 years.
As revealed in an internal communique to her colleagues, the journalist's last day at the station will be Wednesday, October 16.
She will be leaving the station to pursue other opportunities in her career.
Juma joined BBC in 2017 as a broadcast journalist and became a Senior Bilingual Reporter in January 2018.
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At BBC, she was celebrated by her colleagues as a team player and diligent journalist who worked tirelessly to cover news across the continent.
In particular, she was recognised for reporting on the conflict in Sudan.
"Mercy has been at the forefront of our coverage of the ongoing Sudan conflict, ensuring that we keep audiences informed of the crisis in the middle of a very busy global news agenda. She has travelled to eastern Chad several times, to spotlight the stories of the most vulnerable victims of the fighting.
"Mercy has a soft spot for telling stories from some of the most under-reported and hostile places in the region and had spearheaded our coverage from eastern DRCongo, Somalia and South Sudan," read the statement in part.
Some of the awards that she has received in recent years include the Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling in 2017.
She was also named as the TV Reporter of the Year - Gender Reporting Category by the Media Council of Kenya in 2016. This was in recognition of her reporting while serving as a reporter at NTV.
