On 7 October 2018, Presidential Elections will be held in Cameroon. The election is prepared under challenging conditions as violent conflicts between anglophone separatists and security forces in the North-West and South-West regions continue to escalate. Media houses and journalists see themselves trapped between separatists, military and government. The Cameroon […]
The CCMN was invited to take part in the “SEF Summer Dialogue 2018: Strengthening Local Peacebuilding – Establishing the Basis for Sustaining Peace”. The SEF (Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden/Association Development and Peace) describes the objective of the conference as follows. “In any process whose purpose is to transform violent conflict, the […]
Atelier d’information des Medias communautaires de l’Ouest sur les concepts de « Peace journalism et CCMN » Date et Lieu: Espace Jeunes Noun – Foumban, le 29 Juin 2018 Responsable: Mariama RIENGOUON NJAYOU, Youth, Citizenship and Peace building Project manager à AJP CEDES – Cameroun Renforcer le tissus social, stopper […]
The CCMN co-ordinator Alexander Vojvoda and Sebastian Lasinger from Culture Radio in Freetown/Sierra Leone contributed an article to the current edition of “The Peace Journalist”. Alexander Vojvoda and Sebastian Lasinger wrote on the collaboration between the two community radio stations and the common networking, documentation and archiving project. Prof Steven […]
In March 2018 Bread for the World published the new “Building Peace” brochure on projects in the framework of the Civil Peace Service (CPS). The 15th edition of this publication focuses on the ways how CPS partner organisations from D.R. Congo, Cameroon and Sierra Leone sustain peace in their contexts. […]
The CCMN – Cameroon Community Media Network produced a 30min documentary on the potentials and challenges of community media in democratization struggels. Watch the documentary here or on our YouTube Channel We also had the opportunity to have a longer interview with Prof Vinod Pavarala (UNESCO Chair on Community Media/University […]
The CCMN – Cameroon Community Media Network accepted the invitation of the FES – Friedrich Ebert Foundation to work with their network of journalists from all the ten Cameroonian regions on the questions of how peace journalism and community media can be used during election time. In addition, we elaborated […]
The CCMN is honoured to announce the visit of the UNESCO Chair on Community Media, Prof Vinod Pavarala, to Cameroon to discuss the role and potentials of community media in the Cameroonian society. At the invitation of the CCMN – Cameroon Community Media Network, Prof Vinod Pavarala will take part […]
The CCMN co-ordinator Alexander Vojvoda contributed an article to current edition of “The Peace Journalist”. Alexander reported on the joint project of the CCMN, Center for Global Peace Journalism, US Embassy in Yaounde and Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Yaounde on community media, peace journalism and election reporting. The CCMN invited […]
