Bamenda Based Journalists Drilled On Media For Peace and Justice
Training session Some journalists of all media landscape in Bamenda have come to the end of a two - day training on the theme "Catalyzing Media for Peace and Justice in Cameroon, " Friday July 30 to Saturday 31. Resource persons of the training were Ngala Desmond, Country Manager DefyHateNow Cameroon, Blaise Abong, diplomat and programs manager at AKPC and Eugene Nforngwa, development policy and communication analyst, Director Rainforest Center for Policy Research. The training saw some 25 media personnel from broadcast and print drilled on conflict management, fake news, hate speech, media advocacy and conflict-sensitive reporting. Some Bamenda based journalists during the training At the end of the training, Eugene Nforngwa opined that journalists need to understand that they have a lot of power in what they say and the words they use, the choices they make that can affect a conflict either negatively or positively but more importantly that they use that power to be able