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The Global Initiative for Digital Inclusion and Communication (GIDICOM) has trained some Bamenda base journalists and CSO members under the umbrella of the Cameroon Community Media Network on Digital Literacy, particularly ,  information verification and Online advocacy. The training saw the participants trained and encouraged to be Up standers and not By standers, encouraging them to put in their best to fight Fake News where ever they see it on the different META platforms (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and others). This participant and CCMN member, Pechuqui Laurata, says   ”I have better understood information verification, getting to know that it is ,  not as tedious and time consuming as one may think .   A lso ,  advocacy is not necessarily to be done by very big organizations alone, as an individual ,  I can start a harsh-tag  and have my friends and I  change something in our community…” To the coordinator of GIDICOM Miss Pedmia Shatu, she...

Nji Ignatius is Bamenda-based journalist working for one of Cameroon's leading weeklies, Eden newspaper. He just returned from Douala after a business trip. He complains they arrived the Matazem border at 4a.m and only succeeded in filing past the two security cordons after a four hours delay. Hyperbolically , that's almost the amount of time Africans trying to cross the Mexican border into the United States, take.   Since the outbreak of the conflict in the two English Speaking Regions, Defense Ministry Officials erected stiff security belts on both sides of the Matazem crossing. Vehicles arriving from East Cameroon are obliged to wait until 6.30a.m before security officials who are usually not in a hurry, begin screening from one passenger to the other and from one bus to another.   Come to think of the fact that of the six accredited travel agencies plying the Bamenda- Yaoundé , Bamenda-Douala, and Bamenda-Buea/Limbe roads, each of them loads at least three full-to-the-brim...

    In addition to its Peace Journalism and conflict transformation activities on the ground, the Cameroon Community Media Network, CCMN Littoral chapter, has made training, one of its strengths. To the CCMN Littoral Regional Coordinator, Regina Liengu Etaka Esong , promoting peace also means educating young people and training actors in the field.  This is because the audience is diverse, including actors belonging to the various stakeholders of a given conflict. Under these circumstances, the training venue becomes a real mediation space where the participants, in addition to acquiring technical knowledge, get to know each other, to exchange and to make joint analyses.      Far from their usual capacity building modules, members were drilled on  on corporate social responsibility CSR. the reason for the choice of this module is simply because, as the CCMN Regional Coordinator for the Littoral puts it;    "We find our selves in a commun...

  As part of measures to spread peace through communication, the Civil Peace Service of Bread for the World organized a 5- day workshop on radio drama production on the theme "Radio Drama: A Veritable Tool for the Promotion of Peace" .The workshop which was held at the PCC Synod office in Buea brought together 17 CPS partner organizations from all over the country. Opening the training workshop, the representative of the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, the National Peace Coordinator, Rev. Nta William Nche disclosed that the workshop is coming at a time when all avenues have to be exploited to preach peace, and radio drama is one of them. During the 5-day training workshop, the participants were drilled on peace, peacebuilding, conflict, history of radio drama, elements of a good script amongst others by Julius Nzang and Achaleke Christian, who were the main facilitators.   Cross Section of Participants During Workshop   At the end of the training wor...

Menchum Journalists' Union, MEJU, now has a new EXCO. Led by CHAM Victor Bama, publisher of Municipal update newspaper, the seven man EXCO has as daunting task, to  Promote effective Communication at grassroots level in order to enhance peace, justice and development.   The young fine brain publisher of Municipal Updates, one of Cameroon's leading English newspaper, was voted by his peers as President, during the Union's maiden Annual General Meeting that held in Yaounde on Friday November 19, 2021. CHAM Victor christened his mandate as a "New Era of peace" . According to him, it is time to build peace and this can only be done if all hands are put on deck so that together, we will be able to contribute in our own little way to Peace building and social cohesion in different parts of Menchum, which will spread to other parts of the Northwest region, that are hard hit by the ongoing conflict.   "For me, the most important vision now is peace, we have to work...

Over 26 media men and women have been trained by Women in Alternative Action (W.A.A) Cameroon, on the role of the media in peace building and conflict, ethical and responsible reporting, which will ensure peace and safety. The training that took place at the Catholic Women Immaculate Conception Home Finance junction, on May 6th 2021, aimed at equipping media personnel, with skills on humanitarian reporting which will go a long way to build peace in the region. According to the facilitator of the day Madam Rosaline Obah, a journalist's pen has so much power and whatever is reported, will either go a long way to incite hate, violence or build a peaceful society. Therefore, the duties and responsibility of a journalist, is to  report fairly, report the  background of the conflict and its causes, present the human side of the story and also  report on peace efforts being made and not only dwell on the negative angle. economictimes.indiatimes.com Afterwards, the fac...