The Association of Women in Media (AWOME) annual General meeting is currently under way in Salima with a call for female journalists to promote and ensure sustainability of women leadership beyond elections.
The call was made by the Chairperson for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Justice Annabel Mtalimanja, who is the guest of honour at the gathering.
Mtalimanja urged female journalists to ensure continuity, consistence and collaboration in promoting governance among women.
“We need to bargain for both professional and political leadership of women throughout the entire time not only targeting elections,” she said.
In her remarks, one of AWOME’s trustees Jayne Gogodus commended female journalists for fair coverage and promotion of women leadership during the just ended general elections.
The two-day AGM is being conducted under the theme “Beyond the ballot, sustaining women in governance”.