The Pan-African journalists organization, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), together with national journalists’ unions and associations across the continent have today called on the African Union (AU) to make the immediate cessation of targeted hostilities against journalists a top priority in order to ensure the safe practice of journalism in Africa under the AU’s campaign on “Silencing the Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa’s Development”.
Reacting to the decision of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) earlier this month, which endorsed the call by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, to put an end to conflicts and the cessation of all hostilities in the continent, African journalists stressed in a joint letter that it is also a clarion call against the killing of journalists with impunity and the many ongoing conflicts that claim the lives of journalists and media workers without recourse to justice.
