In March Jonathan Rozen and Evelyn Okakwu of the Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) travelled to Ghana to meet with the family of the murdered journalist, Ahamed Hussein-Suale Divela who shared their frustrations in seeking justice over four years. Kamilu Ibrahim Tahidu and his brothers gather every evening outside their family home in Ghana’s capital […]
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No fewer than fifteen (15) campus journalists in West Africa will be engaged under Campus Solutions Journalism Project. The Campus Solutions project is set to bridge a gap in challenges facing educational system in Africa by mobilising and supporting reporters to produce stories about the positive deviants in the education sector in West African countries.
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Eight journalists have been announced as winners of the 2021 West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The winners named at a virtual ceremony held on November 10 received up to USD 1,250 each and a plaque of recognition. The winners and their entries are listed below: The
Nigerian journalists won five out of the seven awards at stake at the West Africa Journalists of the fifth edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) in Accra, Ghana on Friday. Samad Uthman of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Nigeria who now works for Dataphyte, Nigeria also emerged as joint
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Reporters, trainers, broadcasters, and creatives across West Africa interested in solutions journalism now have a one-stop site to access news, resources, and career opportunities, thanks to a Fellowship awarded to Founder and Executive Director of Media Career Development Network (MCDN), Lekan Otufodunrin. Otufodunrin is one of the five Fellows selected from hundreds in Nigeria for
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