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#FreeIhsaneElKadi : Sign this petition for the immediate release of Radio M and Maghreb Émergent director Ihsane El Kadi, who has been jailed in Algeria

February 4, 2023
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Support the campaign by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for the urgent release of Algerian media director Ihsane El Kadi, who has been held arbitrarily since 24 December. An independent journalist and fervent press freedom advocate, Ihsane El Kadi is the director of the Algerian radio station Radio M and the news website Maghreb Émergent, media outlets that are critical of the authorities in…

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Call for Entries: 2022 AMDF Journalist of the Year Award

September 29, 2022
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| Categories:Awards, Journalism, Journalist of the Year, Media Development, Media Reports

BACKGROUND Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) invites applications from interested professional, or freelance journalists in Africa for its Journalist of the Year Award. CRITERIA • Each piece of work submitted must be an untold story from Africa and focused on Africans • The piece must reflect high quality journalism work, highlighting major issues in the story, as well as…

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2022 Bagauda Kaltho Media Lectures: The Nexus Between the Mass Media and the Promotion of SDGs

September 20, 2022
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Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) held its 2022 annual Bagauda Kaltho Memorial Media Lecture Series virtually, with the theme “Free Media for Sustainable Development: The Role of Journalists. Since inception, AMDF has worked towards promoting media development, press freedom and communication and as its affects issues of development. The year’s theme was aimed at drawing attention on the role…

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AMDF Condemns Attack on Nigerian Journalist

June 2, 2022
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Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) received with shock reports of attack against Toba Adedeji a correspondent with The Nation Newspaper, by an officer of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), on Tuesday May 31st while covering a protest in Osogbo. Local reports say that the journalist was covering a protest by some youths over the death of their friend who…

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AMDF, NUJ Sign MOU On Trainings, Strategic Plan Development

May 19, 2022
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Africa Media Development Foundation, AMDF is to train the new executives of the Kaduna State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ on leadership. It will also support the Council in developing it’s 3-year strategic plan, as well as engage in periodic training on Journalism skills for members of the Council. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to this effect…

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Press Freedom Day 2022

May 4, 2022
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Today, at Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF), we salute journalists in Africa, and others around the world, who remain in the frontline to practice journalism, despite the attacks, threats, imprisonment, loss and blackmail. As we mark the 2022 World Press Freedom Day, we remember each of the 55 journalists killed worldwide in the last one year (UNESCO figures), who…

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AMDF Trains NUJ Kaduna Council Excos

March 17, 2022
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Kaduna state council held its first leadership training for members of the executive in partnership with Africa Media Development Foundation in Kaduna. Speaking at the training, the executive chairman of the NUJ Kaduna state council, Asma’u Yawo Halilu said the meeting was in fulfillment of its campaign promise “as part of our electioneering…

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MD Hybrid Feeds Commends AMDF, OmniAgrik on Reporting Food Security Project

March 3, 2022
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The MD/CEO Hybrid Feeds, Leye Alayande has commended the Africa Media Development Foundation and OmniAgrik Specialties for the Journalists’ mentorship on Reporting Food Security initiative in Kaduna. Speaking to journalists on a one-day field trip to the Hybrid Feeds plant in Kaduna, Alayande said the importance of food to the safety of a nation cannot be overemphasized “that is…

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Kafanchan Journalists Commit to Peace Building

November 2, 2021
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Journalists in Kafanchan have committed to support activities that will promote lasting peace in southern Kaduna.   They made the commitment at a one-day capacity building for journalists on Peace Reporting, as part of activities towards the implementation of the Network of Nigerian Facilitators’ (NNF) Peace Dialogue project in Kaduna, North West Nigeria.   The one-day Training was to…

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WPFD: AMDF Reaffirms Committment To Press Freedom

May 3, 2021
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Every year, May 3rd is set aside as a day to call to mind the principles of journalism and the many challenges confronting the media in the discharge of their duties. Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) empathizes with the struggles of African journalists who are constantly on the frontline, showing courage and resilience despite the many challenges. The year…

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