{"id":211022,"date":"2025-10-24T00:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-mfwa-calls-on-journalists-to-report-with-courage-professionalism\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:48:50","slug":"cote-divoire-mfwa-calls-on-journalists-to-report-with-courage-professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-mfwa-calls-on-journalists-to-report-with-courage-professionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: MFWA Calls On Journalists to Report With Courage, Professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) extends its best wishes to the government and people of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire as they head to the polls on Saturday, October 25, 2025, to elect a new president. MFWA expresses hope that the process will strengthen the country&#8217;s democracy, peace, and unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">The MFWA calls on journalists to act as watchdogs of democracy, report on the elections comprehensively, and ensure professionalism in their work. It further urges the media to report with courage and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230622.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) extends its best wishes to the government and people of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire as they head to the polls on Saturday, October 25, 2025, to elect a new president. MFWA expresses hope that the process will strengthen the country&#8217;s democracy, peace, and unity. The MFWA calls on journalists to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6137,5958,6183,6555,12652,5959,1218,1654,11415,257,19420,5144,254],"class_list":["post-211022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-courage","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-journalists","tag-mfwa","tag-news","tag-professionalism","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}