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SLAJ Trains North-East Region Female Journalists on Safety and Security in Election Reporting

​ By: Ibrahim Benjamin Brima Kanu brimakhan@gmail.com Sierra Leone Association of Journalist in partnership with Intedr-Religious Council, IRN, IMC and Irish-Aid has ended one day training for female journalist across the North-Eastern region on safety and security reporting during the forthcoming June 24, 2023 multi-tier election in Sierra Leone. The training was held on Saturday 10th June, 2023 at Where Else guests house in the Makeni-Kabala highway and was attended by many female journalists from various merdia institutions across the region. Giving the background of the training, Sahr James Banga, the vice president of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalist outlined some of the many problems that journalists especially female journalists normally encounter in election reporting which made the association deemed it fit to provide training of this nature for female journalists across the country with the aim of expanding the democratic space through media capacity, enhancement in...