Luanda — A workshop on "media and elections in Angola" will be held from April 29 to 30, in a promotion of the Journalists Training Centre (Cefojor), in order to upgrade professionals of the sector to better play their role during the elections.

ANGOP learnt this Wednesday from a press release from Cefojor that the seminar will be held considering the preponderant role of this sector in the consolidation of democracy, mobilisation and upgrading citizen's patriotic and civic conscience.

According to the source, similar activities will also happen in the rest of the country.

"The role of the press in consolidating democracy", "Electoral coverage in Angola-experiences obtained in 1992" and "the media and the electoral law", are some of the topics to be discussed at the upgrading course.

The workshop's agenda also comprises topics like "Portuguese, Brazilian and South African experiences in electoral coverage and the US electoral system".