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Bah: "MRCG-SL will stick to the cause of enhancing TJ-Issues in Sierra Leone"

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson

Earlier today (Saturday, 22nd May, 2021) at the maiden clinic for University Students in Makeni organized by Advocacy for Human Rights and Justice-Sierra Leone, one of the partners of the Media Reform Coordinating Group-Sierra Leone (MRCG-SL), Project Manager Osman Bah has entreated attendees of the day’s event to stay focus to the course in their work as Transitional Justice and Human Right defenders.
Mr. Bah while delivering his address gave a brief background of MRCG-SL, revealed some of the gains made over the years working with various partners in the Media, Human Rights Organizations within and outside Sierra Leone amongst other in the promotion of responsible journalism, building the capacities of Journalists in Sierra Leone, supporting advocacies for free speech and Transitional Justice Issues using the Truth and Reconciliation Commission document.
At MRCG-SL we are working on a number of projects with support from a number of local and international donor partners such as UNDP, NED, MFWA and more, he remarked.

Furthering that MRCG-SL is thrilled with the partnership and support received so far from Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund – (ATJLF) enabling them undertake a number of projects in the country including “Engaging the media to change the narratives of TJ Issues in Sierra Leone”. A project that enabled them conduct a baseline survey about Journalists knowledge and understanding on TJ-Issues, trained journalists nationwide, hired the services of two mentor who worked with the secretariat to mentor six journalists from each of the six regions in Sierra Leone that developed over seventy stories on Transitional Issues in Sierra Leone leading to the already developed manual by MRCG-SL on TJ-Issues in Sierra Leone.

Concluding his remark at the event, Mr. Bah promised to share the newly developed Manual on Transitional Justice Issues to university students and other human rights promoters and defenders in the second phase of the ATJLF/MRCG-SL partnership, expressed greetings from the MRCG-SL National Coordinator Dr. Francis Sowa and additionally pledged his organization’s continued support to partners on the development of the media and enhancing Transitional justice issues in Sierra Leone.

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