Sharing My Experience From The National Arts Center In Accra, Ghana

Some Ghanaian fabric at the Art Center in Accra

The sun wasn’t hot as usual, but it was hotter than a hot day in Monrovia. I did not get up as early as usual. We had been told the day before that we would visit the Art Center and the Accra Shopping Mall, the largest in West Africa, I was made to understand. I was not really impressed about going to the Art Center. I had been there before, in 2008, when Accra was jam parked, days ahead of the kickoff of the 2008 African Cup of Nations that was being hosted there.

INWENT Trains 15 W/African Journalists On “Conflict Sensitive” Reporting

The International Institute of Journalism of INWENT, the German government’s capacity building organization, has trained 15 West African journalists for conflict sensitive (or peace reporting) in their respective countries and the region at large.

The two-week intensive training, which ran from April 17-30 was held in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, with participants coming from Liberia (2), Nigeria (2), Sierra Leone (4), Togo (1), Gambia (3) and the host country (2).

The author of this blog, D. Kaihenneh Sengbeh and FrontPage Africa’s legislative reporter Moses Varfee Kowo represented Liberia.

Violent Conflicts Challenge ECOWAS…Says West African Security Expert

Gen Agymefra addressing journalist in Accra, Ghana

The greatest challenge facing Economic Community Of West African  States (ECOWAS) is how to contain and resolve violent conflicts, and forestall the outbreak of new ones, particularly coup d’etats in the West African sub-region, a military expert has said.

Brigadier General Francis Asiedu Agyemfra (retired) said “there is no denying the fact that West Africa stands out as one of the most unstable sub-regions in the world.”

“In the last two decades, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire and Guinea Bissau have been embroiled in civil conflicts that have resulted in mass murder, massive cross-border refugees and arms flow, internal displacement and other degrading forms of treatment to the population,” the former Defense Minister of Ghana said.