{"id":64742,"date":"2025-04-24T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64742"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:03:27","slug":"ecowarn-equips-monitors-for-smarter-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/24\/ecowarn-equips-monitors-for-smarter-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWARN Equips Monitors for Smarter Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ECOWAS Early Warning Response Network has kicked off a three day training workshop in Abuja to sharpen the skills of its Field and Media Monitors drawn from twelve West African nations including Nigeria, Ghana, and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The intensive workshop aims to boost the capacity of monitors to identify early warning signals, enhance data accuracy, and tackle the growing threat of misinformation across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Onyinye Nkechi Onwuka, Acting Director of ECOWARN, charged participants to uphold high standards in reporting, warning that flawed data can distort the realities on the ground and derail response efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions focus on a range of critical topics such as ECOWARN event classifications, fact checking, inclusive data gathering, and the ECOWAS human security framework.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from across West Africa are facilitating the sessions in a push to deepen regional cooperation and strengthen the mechanisms for peace and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The ECOWAS Early Warning Response Network has kicked off a three day training workshop in Abuja to sharpen the skills of its Field and Media Monitors drawn from twelve West African nations including Nigeria, Ghana, and Sierra Leone. The intensive workshop aims to boost the capacity of monitors to identify early warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64744,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64742\/revisions\/64744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}