RAG journalists trained on probing illicit financial flows

Media Foundation for West Africa over the weekend held a two-day training on illicit financial flows for Radio Africa Group at the latter’s offices.

The foundation also donated media equipment to RAG to help establish an Illicit Financial Flows desk and strengthen the existing investigative desk.

Programme manager Daniel Kwame handed over the equipment to Radio Africa Group editorial director Paul Ilado. Ilado said the donation will help the media house produce impactful stories and adapt to the fast-growing news environment.

“We appreciate MFWA for the donation. It will help complete our storytelling,” Ilado said.

“We will make good use of the equipment, and considering we are in the digital age, these items will be of great use.”

Photojournalist Enos Teche described the training as valuable. “I have learnt a lot from the Illicit Financial Flows training,” he said.

“I did not know that money laundering is such a big crime. I have also learnt that IFF is in all the aspects we cover. We just need to approach it with a different view. The two-day event has been an adventure for me.”

The MFWA is a regional independent NGO with a network of national partner organisations in all 16 countries in West Africa.

It is the biggest and most influential media development and freedom of expression organisation in the region, with UN Economic and Social Council consultative status. 

At the Africa Union level, the MFWA has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.