CCMN Gets New Status: Renews Vow In De-escalting The Conflict In Anglophone Cameroon

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Martial Gnoukapasi

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 The peace journalism and conflict transformation project, introduced by the PCC in the course of the on going anglophone crisis in Cameroon to revoke the war narrative, propaganda, violence and hate propagated largely by  "sensational social media actors etc",  has been applauded for de-congesting the tense atmosphere and contributed significantly in back-pedaling the violence from further escalation.

At a training program and network meeting of members belonging to the executing arm of the program in the last days of december 2019, 28th and 31st of december to be precise in Bamenda, the now national coordinator of the project Rose Akah Obah saluted members for their commitment and adherance to the peace journalism concept and for using the peace approach in designing for the past two years, relevant contents that has enormously help in de-escalating the violence given birth to by the conflict in the North West and South West regions of the country. 

CCMN National Coordinator Rose Obah.
photo credit: GPmediA

This to the admiration of it's funder  Bread for the World(Brot) that has decided to renew their confidence in the network by announcing a second phase of the program. They will be accompanied this time around by the Civil Peace Service office and other organisations indicating interest already.

 It was inline of the above that the network in a training of trainers workshop that took place in Buea late last year still, decided to re-organize the organigram and extended the project to other regions of cameroon for this second phase of the project that shall begin in march this year.

CCMN Members Situating the crisis in NW.


The Cameroon Cummunity Media Network(CCMN) with motto "we stand for peace" now operates in six out of the ten regions of cameroon. These regions are headed by regional coordinators whose activities are now supervised by a national office headed by Rose Akah Obah.\par
Meantime affiliates of the network in the north west region after a careful situational analyses of the impact of the crisisis on the socio-cultural, economic and political lives of the people in the region, have realize via the reports they produced that there's still much work to be done and have pledged their commitment to continue with productions and programs that could assist to bring peace and development back into the affected communities.

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