Gambia: International Training Exposes Sub-Regional Journalists to Statelessness

Dakar — Ten senior journalists drawn from the five Anglophone countries of west Africa namely, The Gambia, Ghana, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone were on Wednesday exposed to the critical issue of statelessness in Africa during a daylong training in the Senegalese capital of Dakar.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) funded training was designed to train members of the fourth estate on statelessness and how this affects West Africa today, but also importantly, looking at it from a rights-based approach.

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