Central African Republic: Supporting the media and humanitarian information and communication in a complex emergency
Central African journalists have been risking their lives as they try to inform their compatriots in what are arguably some of the worst security and technical conditions. Even prior to the current conflict, CAR media faced challenging circumstances. IREX reported in its Media Sustainability Index that: “Media professionals in the Central African Republic continue to subsist despite deteriorating working conditions, meager operating budgets, dilapidated facilities, and technical barriers to disseminating their reporting. They face government tactics of harassment, suspensions, and other deterrents, particularly in relation to the country’s persisting problems of corruption and banditry in
the southeast.
Due to the challenges in getting accurate information of the sector’s needs and the importance ofbringing together key stakeholders, IMS and Institute Panos Europe (IPE) organised a two-day roundtable in Yaoundé, Cameroon in February 2014 address the needs of the media and humanitarian information and communication sectors in CAR.