The third African Media Convention will be held in Accra thanks to the Ghana Journalists Association's (GJA) successful application.
The conference, which is slated for May 2024, will bring together the continent's most influential media figures and decision-makers.
The convention is a project of The African Editors' Forum (TAEF), a group of editors and senior editorial executives throughout the continent, and it aims to protect the region's hard-won press freedoms and journalists' safety.
The GJA will be the first journalists' organisation to host the occasion, which will bring together media professionals, academics, students, journalists, journalists' unions and associations, editors, and the public and private sectors, among others, to analyse pertinent issues confronting journalists in the African context.
Albert Dwumfour, the president of the GJA, led a team to bid for the hosting rights at the second convention, which took place in Lusaka, Zambia, earlier this month.
Important figures from the African Union Commission and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), among others, will attend the ceremony, which marks the GJA's 75th anniversary.
Credentials
Speaking at a press conference with the Ministry of Information's assistance, Mr. Dwumfour said the lobbying was successful because Ghana performed exceptionally well in the World Press Freedom Index between 2018 and 2020, which ranked Ghana as the most liberated nation on the continent.
Mawuli Segbefia, the head of policy planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation at the Ministry of Information, as well as Cecil Sunkwa Mills, president of the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association, and other GJA officials, attended the press conference.
In addition to reiterating the association's readiness to host the convention, Mr. Dwumfour noted that doing so would give African media stakeholders the chance to discuss issues such as the recurring trends that limit journalists' safety and security as well as their freedom of expression and press freedom.
He continued by saying that the meeting will aid in promoting the nation's tourism areas.
Recommendations
He also asked the press and other stakeholders to support the implementation of a national minimum wage policy for journalists in each nation. Addressing the adoption of laws and policies aimed at increasing control and limiting the digital civic space, monitoring and communication interception, and the escalating instances of violence against journalists and media professionals on the continent were all suggestions of the second convention.
Mr. Dwumfour extended appreciation to all parties involved for their ongoing assistance in helping the GJA achieve that goal.
In addition to congratulating the GJA leadership on winning the bid, Messrs. Segbefia and Mills also pledged their assistance and dedication to the GJA in order to help it conduct a successful convention.
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