In preparation for the upcoming November 2024 Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) facilitated a training session for Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (nbc) journalists.
The Conference on Building a Resilient Information Ecosystem in Southern Africa continues in the capital, and today, the discussion was about the rise of social media and technology that has significantly worsened the spread of both misinformation and disinformation.
Between January 2019 and June 2022, UNESCO documented 759 individual attacks on journalists, including five murders, during 89 elections in 70 countries.
