tories/jounalists/journo.jpg" border="0" alt="Strenghening the capacity of southern Africa journalists to report on extractive industries" title="Strenghening the capacity of southern Africa journalists to report on extractive industries" align="right" />The Southern Africa Resource Watch organized a five day training workshop for SADC journalists at Fatmols Executive Lodge in Ndola, Zambia, from 9-14 May 2010. The training focused on reporting extractive industries and tackled a wide range of issues relating to this subject: policy and regulatory issues on SADC’s mining industry, SADC’s economic development debates, media and development in SADC, understanding corporate social responsibility in SADC mining, issues and debates on African forestry, reporting and writing stories on extractive industries, and promoting purpose-driven journalism in African media.