The staff of the Guardian Post Newspaper, has been schooled on peace and responsible journalism. The training exercise took place on Saturday January 9th 2021 in Yaoundé, and was facilitated by CCMN's National Coordinator, Rosaline Akah Obah.
The training focused on how the GP family, can report stories in a way that mitigates conflict, involving the use of non violent Communication, telling the story as it is without the use of hate language amongst others. After an exchange with the staff, the Publisher, Kristian Ngah, together with other staff, expressed satisfaction to timely training as it will go a long way to help the editors and reporters to be solution oriented in their reporting while paying more attention to the local community members.
The Coordinator of the network for the Centre Region, Moma Sandrine, was equally present at the event and she encouraged the staff to do their best to avoid reporting stories in a way that can spark further violence. She equally used the opportunity to hand over COVID-19 sensitization flyers produced by the CCMN with support from Fondation Hirondelle, as part of the Covid-19 response measures in communities, including newsrooms.
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