KATANGA: Media Women updated on MONUSCO’s challenges and priorities

26 mar 2015

KATANGA: Media Women updated on MONUSCO’s challenges and priorities

LUBUMBASHI, 23 March 2015 – Within the framework of the commemoration of the Women’s month, MONUSCO Public Information section/Lubumbashi organized a brainstorming session with 50 media women in Lubumbashi. The purposes of the session were to get media women to familiarize with MONUSCO’s mandate and to share the challenges they face when carrying out their duties.

The session was opened by the chief of the Office a.i. Mr. Elom Komi Akpalou, who presented the Mission’s priorities as set out in the UNSC Resolution 2147 of 28 March 2014. Then, representatives of the different sections of MONUSCO/Lubumbashi office and the World Food Program (WFP) gave presentations on their respective activities.

Other presentations were given by media specialists: Ms. Rose Lukano Tshakwiza, CEO of the local Television Channel Mwangaza’s presentation focused on theme: ‘’Media Women’s and positions of responsibility’’. She shared her experience as one of the rarest women in the country to run the media. To be competitive, she said, media women should demonstrate professional skills and ambition to ever improve. Professor Kasongo Mwema Yamba Yamba, on a former RFI journalist, on his part, briefed the audience on the theme: ‘’Media Women’s conduct and ethics in the professional environment’’. After explaining the concepts ‘’conducts, attitude and ‘’professional environment’’, he urged women to take up other aspects of the media such as the gender issue, investigations, field reporting just like men.

Having noted that media professionals were not familiar with many aspects of MONUSCO’s mandate, especially its civilian component, participants requested MONUSCO, through its Public Information Section, to organize capacity-building sessions and refresher session for media women, including in respect of human rights.

Nana Rosine