By: Aisha Faal Mary Ongore, Senior Legal Manager for Sustainable Finance at the International Lawyers Project (ILP), has said journalists should be able to seek and obtain information held by public institutions if access to information laws is to serve their purpose of promoting transparency and accountability.“Journalists and citizens must […]
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TJNA Calls for Stronger Media, Civil Society Partnership
By: Aisha Faal As TJNA wraps up its Intermediate Course training in Kenya, Nelly Busingye, Partnership and Institutional Learning Manager at Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA), has called for stronger collaboration between the media and civil society.Madam Busingye emphasized that building effective partnerships between journalists and civil society actors is […]
Dr. Latif urges African journalists to look beyond revenue collection when reporting on taxation
by Aisha Faal Dr Lyla Latif, a global lawyer and lecturer at the University of Nairobi has urged African journalists to look beyond revenue collection when reporting on taxation, arguing that tax justice encompasses issues such as language, illicit financial flows, artificial intelligence, data governance and the global financial system. […]
Weaving against the flood: Can Gambian women stitch a living from plastic that drowned their streets?
By Ousman A. Marong Photo: Fatim Jobe, steadily sitting after stitching. The same sachet water bags that once carried Fatim Jobe’s rice stock into a flooded drain last August are now neatly stacked beside her. She carefully cuts them into strips, ties them together, and weaves. After six hours of […]
