AWE Media Sierra Leone

Presentation by AHMED SAHID NASRALLA, President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) at the UNESCO-NUJ Regional Webinar marking World Press Freedom Day 2020 held on 5th April, 2020. Good morning everyone. Thank you UNESCO, NUJ and Channels Academy for putting this webinar together. Our sincere sympathy goes to family, relatives and friends of our colleagues in the sub-region who have already succumbed to the cold hands of COVID-19. Those in treatment and quarantine centers, we wish them speedy recovery. To our colleagues behind bars during this period, we urge the authorities for your unconditional release and safety. I am delighted to share this platform with my colleague presidents of Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria. Yesterday, we marked WPFD locally with a virtual Conference on the theme: ‘The Media and the COVID-19 Pandemic’. One of our colleagues in the panel, Edward Kargbo, attempted to situate the media during this pandemic as a key victim and as an actor in the nati...