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Expanding voices: Empowering communities through local radio

Ethiopia struggles with language barriers and low literacy rates along with poor access to information in rural communities. Community radio addresses these issues and bridges the gap by providing a platform that amplifies local voices, languages and cultural expressions.

Declaration on media and gender violence adopted at AWIM23

Representatives from the media sector, academia and civil society unanimously adopt declaration on gender-based violence in and through the media at AWIM23.

Fojo to conduct its second media consumption survey in Rwanda

Fojo’s Rwanda Media Programme is set to conduct the second phase of its media consumption survey in early 2024. This survey follows the successful completion of the first survey in 2021, which aimed to assess the Rwandan media sector nationwide, including the rural areas which had not previously been included. 

Globally united to counter threats – #GIJC23 a huge success 

With a new record-breaking number of participants, the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference brought together 2100 investigative journalists from across the world in Sweden last week. Fojo Media Institute was one of three organisers.

Rwanda, Somalia and Ethiopia Journalism education exchange programme

Staff from nine university journalism schools in Ethiopia, Somalia and Rwanda participated in an academic journalism education exchange programme in Ethiopia 5-9 June this year. The weeklong exchange was organised by the Fojo Media Institute and hosted by the Fojo-IMS Ethiopia media programme.

University learning tour

Fojo recently arranged a university exchange network tour to Rwanda, bringing together nine academics from as many universities in Ethiopia, Somalia and Rwanda.

Rwanda: Annelie Frank shares her experience on being an expert mentor

Annelie Frank, Fojo’s own expert on fact-checking, worked as an expert mentor on the Rwanda Media Programme for two weeks recently. Being an expert mentor in Rwanda entails offering your expertise on a voluntary basis. We asked her what it was like to be an expert mentor for Fojo in Rwanda.