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Central Project Evaluation: Further Education and Training for Media Professionals in Africa – DW Akademie, Kenya and Rwanda. Evaluation Report

Stefan Silvestrini, Furaha Hakizimana
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2020), 56 pp.
"The factors that led to the overall unsatisfactory assessment of the project can be summarised as follows: • The project was not anchored in any overarching reference framework. Accordingly, neither its contributions to the strategic objectives of the German development cooperation nor to any oth ... more
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Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks

Hlengiwe Dube, Maristella A. Simiyu, Tomiwa Ilori
Pretoria; Kampala: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.
"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense ... more
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Resisting Disinfodemic: Media and Information Literacy for Everyone by Everyone

Abuja: UNESCO Abuja Regional Office (2020), 253 pp.
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Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History

Marie-Luce Desgrandschamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka, Kevin O'Sullivan, Bertrand Taithe
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 66-78
"This roundtable took place on 16 January 2020, at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Biafra. It brought together Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka and Kevin O’Sullivan. The roundtable was organised and chaired by Bertrand Taithe, University of ... more
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Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts

Danny Lämmerhirt, Ana Brandusescu, Natalia Domagala, Patrick Enaholo (eds.)
Cape Town: African Minds (2020), xiii, 243 pp.
"This book provides empirical accounts to understand the situatedness of open data along the following themes: 1) open data practices; 2) the local implementation of global trends; and 3) open data ecosystems. Many chapters in this volume simultaneously address several of these themes. The thematic ... more
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Evaluation du développement de l’internet au Bénin: Utilisation des indicateurs ROAM-X de l’Universalité de l’Internet de l’UNESCO

Alain Kiyindou
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 263 pp.
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Status of Faith-Based Media and Regulation of Religious Discourse on Women in the Media in Mali, Senegal, Niger and Côte D'Ivoire

Anselme Jean-Marie Kouamé Mlan, Ibrahima Sangho, Adamou Rabani, Sémou Ndiaye
Dakar: Panos West Africa; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands (2020), 45 pp.
"The study calls for the formal recognition of faith-based media in Senegal and Niger. It also suggests to the different stakeholders such as the Government, regulatory bodies and the civil society, women's rights organizations, to take a series of measures and actions to strengthen the regulation o ... more
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Making Civic Space Resilient

Cordaid; Hivos (2020), 31 pp.
"The 10 countries included in this paper all show specific characteristics and contexts but also show similar barriers. Identifying shared characteristics will facilitate the development of shared approaches to deal with shrinking space. Don’t work in silos! It’s (also) about upholding the law: ... more
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Transparent for Whom? Dissemination of Information on Ghana's Petroleum and Mining Revenue Management

Põivi Lujala, Christa N. Brunnschweiler, Ishmael Edjekumhene
Journal of Development Studies, volume 56, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2135-2153
"The dominant transparency narrative in policymaking attributes a key role to the public: once citizens gain information, they are predicted to use it to demand better resource governance. Whether the public receives the available information in the first place, however, has not been scrutinised in ... more
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Enhancing Citizens’ Access to Information at the Local Level in Ghana: Using the RTI Law (989)

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 33 pp.
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State of Internet Freedom in Cameroon 2019: Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 18 pp.
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Pushing a Political Agenda: Harassment of French and African Journalists in Côte d’Ivoire’s 2010-2011 National Election Crisis

Jeslyn Lemke
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 472-490
"Côte d’Ivoire’s national election in 2010 descended into civil war into 2011 when incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo refused to concede the presidency to the internationally recognized winner Alassane Ouattara. The three political players in this election—the parties of Ouattara, Gbagbo, and ... more
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Framework on Police-Media Relations & Safety of Journalists in Ghana

Ghana Police Service; Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); National Media Commission (2020), 16 pp.
"[...] the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and other media actors, in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, in 2018 began a process to improve relations between the media and the police. As a first step a forum was organised in July 2018 to discuss the safety of journalists and police ... more
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La communication de l'État en Afrique: Discours, ressorts et positionnements

Simon Ngono (ed.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 360 pp.
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State of Internet Freedom: Democratic Republic of the Congo 2019. Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019

Arsene Tungali, Blaise Ndola
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 17 pp.
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Threats to Media Freedom and the Safety of Journalists in Nigeria

Umaru A. Pate, Sharafa Dauda
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 241-256
"This chapter interrogates long-established and wide-sprung threats to media freedom and journalists' safety in Nigeria. The study used semi-structured interviews to explore field and newsroom experiences. The findings revealed the types of threats to media freedom and journalists' safety, non-exist ... more
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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Nigeria

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 8 pp.
"Generally, the relevant authorities in Nigeria have, to a large extent, been proactive with press briefings and national addresses since the outbreak of the pandemic. However, reporters have realised that they are often unable to access information beyond what is said in the briefings. Officials so ... more
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Communicating Science: A Global Perspective
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Toss Gascoigne, Bernard Schiele, Joan Leach, Michelle Riedlinger, Bruce V. Lewenstein, Luisa Massarani, Peter Broks (eds.)
Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) Press (2020), xi, 982 pp.
"This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did ... more
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Reporting on Migration A Handbook for Journalists in West Africa
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Michelle Betz, Emmanuel Wongibe, Ibrahima Sané, Mia Barrett, Hannah Murphy
International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2020), vi, 79 pp.
"Journalists have an obligation to report on the issues of migration, refugees and human trafficking in an accurate, fair, balanced, humane and ethical way. These are complex stories. Research and news reports indicate the issue of migration affects countries across the globe on the political, econo ... more
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The Role of Ghanaian News Media Organisations in Countering Threats to Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety

Gifty Appiah-Adjei
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 186-213
"Journalist safety is vital to media freedom as it shows stakeholders' duties to protect the media from crime and to guard media freedom. The media have the power to combat problems via coverage, yet evidence submits that journalist insecurity persists in Ghana. So, the study aims to examine how the ... more