The Fisheries Project was honored by an international panel of judges in the context of the 3rd Stop IUU Fishing Awards to acknowledge the “unique role journalists and the media can play in combatting IUU fishing and associated activities.”
Read moreAs part of activities to mark the first ever Illegal Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Fishing Day on June 5th and World Oceans Day on June 8th, EJN’s new partner organization in Ghana, the Journalists for Responsible Fisheries and Environment (JRFE), organized a set of press trips in the country’
In partnership with local and national Ghanaian media organizations and with funding support from the Adessium Foundation, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network held a three-day capacity-building workshop on fisheries reporting in Ghana, in September 2017. The workshop, entitled “
With the goal of improving journalists’ ability to expertly tackle the often overlapping issues of overfishing, food security and ocean governance, EJN's fisheries project also aims to further explore the economic and social consequences of overfishing on coastal communities in West Africa, throu
In Kenya, young technologists and innovators have created a unique space for collaboration and incubation at iHub, a community facility with a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile phone programmers, designers and researchers.
A 14-year-old boy arrives at a community radio station in southern Ghana with a harrowing story. He had recently escaped to Benin after being kidnapped from Ghana and forced to work without pay on a Nigerian cattle farm where he was beaten frequently and given little to eat.
If someone were to ask how you would rank all the continents in terms of accessibility to technology, I think almost anyone would rank Africa last. But that may not be true for much longer.
If someone were to ask how you would rank all the continents in terms of accessibility to technology, I think almost anyone would rank Africa last. But that may not be true for much longer.
Making your Android phone behave like a mobile phone tower? There’s an app for that, in Nigeria.
Tapping into an SMS network to report human trafficking in rural areas? There’s an app for that, in Ghana.