Amisom, Somalia media lobby launch election awareness campaign

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The programme seeks to place journalists at the fore of informing the public about politics without inciting them. FOTOSEARCH

The African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) has launched a sensitisation campaign on the need for fair coverage of elections, raising the role of the media in the country’s political set-up.

The programme, a collaboration between Amisom, the National Union of Somalia Journalists (Nusoj) and the main electoral management body (FEIT), seeks to place journalists at the fore of informing the public about politics without inciting them.