Humanitarian Reporting: Providing Hope To Displaced Persons In Cameroon

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Martial Gnoukapasir

Fonyuy Kiven- Public Information Officer at OCHA Cameroon

In reporting the current crisis strangling the anglophone regions of cameroon, most journalists seems to have ignored their role in assisting humanitarian agencies respond to the needs of the suffering masses.

Acknowleding that in every community, journalists should serve as advocates of peace and agents of development, it is therefore safe to say it's their responsibilty in accordance with members of their immediate coummunity, to identify those in need of what type of humanitarian assisitance as well as play a key role in ensuring that these humaniterian packages (aid), gets to those in need without hinderance and in record time.

"Humanitarian aid workers are neither politicians nor judges and are not on the field to support or condemn the actions of state or non state actors. They remain neutral in any conflict situation like the anglophone crisis.

Reason why they must be given the opportunity to access communities in the north west and south west regions with aids such as food, first aid, drugs, portable water phsycho-social support etc, in keeping with their key principle of alleviating human sufferings in the face of any adversity and without threat or attack from either the state or non state actors.

CCMN workshop on Humanitarian reporting

Facilitating a workshop organized for media houses affiliated to the NW and West Chapter of the Cameroon Community Media Network(CCMN), a beneficiary of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon's Peace Journalism and Conflict Transformation project, Friday december 27th in bamenda, United Nation's Public information officer at the office of the coordination of humanitarian affairs in cameroon(OCHA) Frankline Fonyuy KIven enjoined the media men and women to always be in constant search for information and reports that will save lives and reduce the sufferings of those affected by the on-going crisis in anglophone cameroon.

Akah Rose Obah - CCMN national coordinator.

CCMN national co-ordinator of the peace journalism and conflict transformation project Rose Akah Obah also implore the journalists to masterfully inculcate the humanitarian techniques of reporting gained from the workshop into their news rooms.

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