The Daily IIJ

The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and the office of the first lady Mrs Sia Koroma has commenced a two-day consultative forum on the role of traditional and religious leaders on the  fight to reduce the high rate of maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. Major obstacle which limited women’s access to basic rights, such as [...]

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Today I was in a workshop which started yesterday organized by Vision Group in Uganda; the theme of the workshop was Health Journalism. Every thing seemed to go well with every facilitator since the opening,  until today afternoon when Dr. Byaruhanga from the Psychiatry department at Mbarara Referral Hospital came in to take us through [...]

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‘Gender issues? Oh, you mean women’s issues right?’ This was the reaction
from most of my male colleagues when we were discussing gender issues
in the media yesterday. And their expressions bore a mixture of
boredom and tolerance, as if they were readying themselves for a
male-bashing exercise by a band of feminist journalists.

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From the beginning it was clear that the gender group was going to be more of a refresher crash course for everyone of us. The facilitator had it all clearly and systematically laid out; from the basics of news writing, grammar and the use of verbs to more concrete discussions on gender reporting through feature [...]

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I have always known so many ways of news writing and reporting, but our lecturer Mrs. Andrea Tapper gave me a new rule, which I think is the most precise and simple one to apply.
Sitting in one room with people from seven different countries and discussing on “reporting with Gender awareness” opened my mind on [...]

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