West African journalists at economic and financial reporting school
5 01 2012French-speaking journalists from the West African sub-region took part in a training course in economic and financial reporting in Dakar, Senegal, from 10 to 14 October. The aim for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation was to reinforce their knowledge about economic news and their approach to covering it.
This 2011 edition of the Thomson Reuters economic and financial reporting course brought together 15 broadcast, print and online media journalists from Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Togo and Senegal. They received tools for dealing with various key topics, notably stock markets, exploitation of natural resources, economic governance and capital flight from developing countries. The training was facilitated by two expert instructors – David White, a former Financial Times correspondent, and Diadié Ba from the Thomson Reuters regional bureau in Dakar.
For them, it was important for reporting in Africa to move beyond political clichés and focus equally on economic issues, and for journalists to do this by taking a more human and wide-ranging perspective in their reports.
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In areas of Aneho, Agbodrafo, Kpeme, Goumou-Kope and Aglome at 30 Km from the capital of Togo Lome, we can see more and more children and adults bearing yellowed teeth. It is remarked in at least 70% of residents, the appearance of small yellow spots on their enamel or brown spots and tooth gap. People in these areas suffer from fluorosis since their infancy and the yellow color appears immediately after the fall of milk-teeth, around six (06) years.When we asked about the cause of this dental fluorisis, populations respond vaguely that “the factory of the National Phosphates mining Society (SNPT) is perhaps for something”. But, they could never imagine, how much they are right.According to studies conducted by local scientists, liquids and solids waste and dust from the treatment of phosphate mining in the area, is the cause of serious environmental problems including the contamination of seawater, well water and soil with fluoride and other toxic metals such as copper, zinc, nickel, chromium. All these forms are at the cause of certain diseases including dental fluorosis which are related to these metals contained in ores.
Due to the weakness of their immune system they are more susceptible to catching TB if they are exposed. People with HIV/AIDS are up to 50 times more likely to develop active TB in a given year than HIV-negative people. In fact, when someone begins to develop symptoms of tuberculosis, the first suspicions always go in the direction of the existence of the AIDS virus because TB bacteria accelerate the progression of HIV to AIDS.
Les experts du Comité des experts en Droit de l’Homme des Nations Unies ne se sont pas fait prendre au jeu de la complaisance du gouvernement togolais. En effet, les questions épineuses relatives au projet de loi sur le droit de manifester et la liberté de rassemblement, au fonction de la Haute Autorité de l’Audiovisuel et de la Communication (HAAC) et de la détention arbitraire ont fait l’objet de sérieux critiques.Le Togo a été enjoint à accélérer le rythme de ses réformes juridiques afin de donner pleinement effet aux dispositions du Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques.
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