Conflict sensitive reporting: Journalists in Bamenda acquire resilient skills

BY NDEFRU MELANIE IN BAMENDA Journalists have been brainstorming during a one-day workshop in Bamenda and have been advised to keep to the tenets that guide the profession, while being resilient within the context of an armed conflict region. Journalists met on Tuesday, April 5, 2022,as part of the Resiliency project by the Bamenda based nongovernmental organisation Information Management and Support Services for Rural Development (IMSSRAD). Discussing their resilience and safety as journalists while they practice the profession, Colbert Gwain, the digital rights activist stated bluntly that no story is worth a journalist’s life. “A journalist must stay alive in…