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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 23 Oct 2007 : 00:00:50
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Training For West African Journalists Calls Off
By Fabakary B. Ceesay
The planned two day training workshop for West African Journalists slated for 19th and 20th October in Banjul has been called off at the eleventh hour without any reason advanced from the organisers. The proposed programme was organised by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) in collaboration with the open society initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
A commission’s member pointed out that they received orders indicating to the Commission that there could not be any possibility of hosting the event in The Gambia. “We were told that the workshop cannot take place here,” he said.
Dr.Feyi Ogunade, Senior legal officers of the commission in charge of promotional affairs said, “now that the event cannot take place here, it will be rescheduled to another country.” Dr. Ogunade declined to comment on where such an order came from. It should be borne in mind that six Gambian Journalists with participants from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo were to benefit from the training. Gambian Journalists were only informed of the development shortly before the start of the programme. It was also brought to their attention that their counterparts, who were due to come from other countries were informed to cancel their fights. They were said to have already bought their air tickets to and from Banjul.
See related topic: West African Human Rights Journalists To Be Trained By ACHPR
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No.124/2007, 22 – 23 October, 2007
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 23 Oct 2007 : 21:49:42
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Oh waau,
Is the Gambia now going to be shut completely from the outside world just like Myanmar(Burma)? What are the authorities in Banjul thinking?Whay having the Headquaters os ACHR in Banjul if the body cannot do their training within their Headquaters? This is indeed a cause for concern. |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 25 Oct 2007 : 00:52:51
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AFRICAN UNION
African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights
REJOINDER TO THE ARTICLE HEADED “TRAINING FOR WEST AFRICAN JOURNALISTS CALLED OFF”, IN THE FOROYAA EDITION OF
22-23 OCTOBER 2007
The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) would like to inform the general public that no orders were received from anybody or any quarter to cancel the Human Rights Workshop for West African Journalists that should have taken place on 19 and 20 October 2007 as part of activities to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the African Commission and to mark African Human Rights Day.
The cancellation, which was at the last minute, was due to financial constraints.
The Workshop, however, will still be held in Banjul, The Gambia, as soon as the required funding has been secured.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 125/2007, 24 – 25 October, 2007 |
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