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Commitment Amid Conflict: The Experience of Central African Journalists Covering Their Country's War

Michelle Betz

In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond

Allan Thompson (ed.)

Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 275-289

"The trend in international newsgathering is to greater reliance on local journalists and fixers to provide crucial information to a global audience. At the same time, these local journalists are themselves becoming targets of violence. Increasingly, local journalists are being killed in the line of ... fire. Their deaths create stress for their colleagues, families and communities. It remains a challenge to discern areas in which the global community can provide support to journalists in these circumstances. As long as we continue to rely on fixers and local journalists for news and information from hot spots around the world, we must also provide them with adequate support to mitigate risk, including to their mental health. Local journalists, such as those in the Central African Republic, are one of the most likely groups of journalists to experience psychological trauma, thanks to the implicit risks of their work, combined with public pressure to provide news from these situations. What support can be provided to these journalists and how can it best meet the specific needs of such a community? Can we promote resiliency? The first step is to acknowledge the dearth of relevant research on mental health and psychosocial support for local journalists in conflict or emergency settings. There is a need for research on the kinds of trauma (and resilience) that journalists experience and their causes, including impacts on the individual and colleagues and impacts on the work […] Second, "little has been done to develop treatments based on local coping styles, culture-specific idioms of distress, and culturally appropriate helping methods" (de Jong 2017, 209) […] Third, any training efforts of journalists should be accompanied with mental health and psychosocial support […] Finally, the United Nations has adopted the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity This may at least give some wider symbolic support to journalists who are victims of traumatic attacks. Ultimately, there must be a recognition that the mental health of the journalist can have an impact on their reporting - something that is particularly critical in conflict environments." (Conclusion) more

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Enabling the Digital Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role for Policy Reforms?

Jose Lopez-Calix, Michel Rogy et al.

World Bank Group (2017), 61 pp.

"I am glad to introduce the third edition of a series of reports aimed at discussing macroeconomic developments in the Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Niger. This series intends to foster public debates on key macroeconomic and fiscal policy options in support of poverty reduction. ... more

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L'autre version de la crise centrafricaine

Johnny Vianney Bissakonou

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 132 pp.

"La bipolarisation de la crise centrafricaine en conflit "chrétiens versus musulmans" détourne l'attention du monde sur les origines, la vraie nature et les auteurs instigateurs de ce drame. Cet ouvrage allume les projecteurs sur tous ceux qui ont joué une partition non négligeable dans ce mélo ... more

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Histoires de courage: Des journalistes centrafricains témoignent

International Media Support (IMS);Panos Europe (2015), 51 pp.

"Cette publication présente l’histoire de 18 journalistes centrafricains, tous victimes de diverses menaces, bastonnades et intimidations, pendant qu’ils effectuaient leur travail de reportage sur le conflit qui a déchiré leur pays entre 2012 et 2014 [...] Les témoignages dans cette publicat ... more

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Testing the Influence of Radio Programs on Climate Change Knowledge: A Pilot Experience from the Congo Basin

Alba Saray Perez-Teran, Anne Marie Tiani, Merline Touko-Tchoko, Bérenger Tchatchou

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2015), v, 17 pp.

"We provide an assessment of the change in knowledge of a rural village in the Congo Basin after inhabitants listened to one of the radio programs that were prepared on climate change. The document also provides potential indicators for result up-scaling. After applying a micro-economic model to a c ... more

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Les médias centrafricains dans la tourmente

Reporters Sans Frontières (2015), 21 pp.

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Centrafrique: Etat des lieux du secteur médias

Marie-Soleil Frère, Pierre Martinot, Pascal Chirhalwirwa, Johanna Rey

Marseille: Panos Europe (2014), 36 pp.

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The Central African Republic: Media in a Complex Emergency

Michelle Betz, Suzanne Moll

International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 25 pp.

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Central African Republic: Supporting the Media and Humanitarian Information and Communication in a Complex Emergency. Roundtable Report, 5-6 February 2014, Yaoundé, Cameroon

International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 30 pp.

"This two-day roundtable brought together representatives from key organizations and institutions in CAR as well as representatives from international organizations currently operating in CAR. The aim was to address the needs for media support and humanitarian information and communication and to en ... more

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Pour un journalisme sensible aux conflits. Édition spéciale République Centafricaine

Ross Howard

International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 33 pp.

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Media Content in the Central African Crisis: An Overview and Solutions for Further Peace-Building and Governance Interventions

Karim Bernard-Dende

Internews Network (2014), 70 pp.

"News represents 23% of the total schedule on the six radio stations monitored [...] The situation of conflict had a direct influence on the subjects treated in news and information content with a focus 1) on the conflict (more than one third of news and information content) but not on grassroots co ... more

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Radio Centrafrique: Institutional and Technical Assessment

Internews;USAID (2014), 10 pp.

"Radio Centrafrique was established in 1958. In its roles as the nation’s public broadcaster, it is run like a state media. However, since 2013, Radio Centrafrique has tried to preserve a neutral tone and its focus on public interest information. However, its status within the Ministry of Communic ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2012: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2013), xix, 455 pp.

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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Zemio Region

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime

Internews;Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 10 pp.

"Between June 30th and July 10th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults, representative of the adult population of the town of Zemio and its surroundings, over 1,000 km east of the capital Bangui in the prefecture of Haut Mbomou, near the bo ... more

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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Obo Region

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime

Internews;Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 11 pp.

"Between May 19th-27th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults representative of the adult population in Obo, the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic (CAR), and its surroundings [...] Radio is the ... more

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Final Reflections: Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime

Internews;Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.

Internews' project Integrating Local Media and Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic (CAR) was an project aimed at improving emergency response, community participation and community resilience. This report presents the final refl ... more

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Répertoire des médias et de la communication en Centrafrique

Bangui: Internews (2012), 22 pp.

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Addressing Mistrust Between Humanitarians and Local Media: Baseline Assessment for “Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in CAR”

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime

Internews;Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.

"Internews' project to integrate local media and ICTs into humanitarian response in CAR takes place in a context of distrust between journalists and humanitarians. According to this report, humanitarians view the media as lacking credibility, depth, independence and fairness, and as monetizing news ... more

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Elections and the Media in Postconflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace?
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Marie-Soleil Frère

London; New York: Zed Books (2011), xiv, 289 pp.

"In democracies with adjectives, the freedom of press also comes with adjectives." If the political regime is situated between a pure democracy and despotism, the freedom of press is also stuck in an in-between-situation. This statement sums up the results of Marie Soleil Frères empirical analysis ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.

Elections and the Media in Postconflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace? Top Insights

Elections and the Media in Postconflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace?
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