Teacher-training for the journalism department, Nouakchott - Communication and Information Sector's Photobank

The teacher-training in journalism was organized by UNESCO and the Government of Mauritania from 7 to 11 March 2011 in a view to creating a journalism department at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Nouakchott based on the UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education.

The training-of-trainers aimed to respond to the urgent need that Mauritania has for qualified journalism trainers and basic training programmes for media professionals. The Mauritanian media sector benefits from the press freedom law adopted in October 2006.

This law has decriminalized press offenses, abolished censorship and authorized the publication of newspapers based on a simple statement of intent. However its application faces serious challenges due to the lack of qualified professional journalists and to the absence of appropriate journalism curricula in Mauritanian schools and universities.

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