Nigeria, April 19 -- Empowering senior African media executives, raising their orientation towards geopolitical developments and learning more innovative skills of disseminating information to the public audience are the main components of the first short-term training programme planned in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It also aims at creating a broad platform for consolidating interaction between Russian and African media outlets, and most importantly, for forging new connections.

The orientation programme titled, "Russia - Africa: The Way of Friendship and Cooperation" - for senior editors in the state and private media organizations across Africa, organized and launched by Alpha-Dialogue, St. Petersburg-based NGO with a focus on education an...