Ghana hosts international law reporting training workshops in Africa

The US-based Africa Center for International Law and Accountability (ACILA) will hold the first-ever international law reporting training workshops for Ghanaian journalists and student journalists in Accra, Ghana. 

About 80 practicing journalists and student journalists are expected to attend two separate workshops beginning next week, December 21st. The student journalists, who are drawn from the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), will attend the workshop next week and the workshop for practicing journalists is scheduled for the first week of January next year.

ACILA, which is incorporated under US law as a 501(c) (3) research and education think tank and aims to contribute to African scholarship through enhanced understanding of international law, will hold the workshop for the student journalists in collaboration with the Faculty of Journalism of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. It plans to hold similar workshops for student journalists and African journalists