By Hawa Dolley
MONROVIA, June 9 (LINA) – The Director General of the Qatar News Agency (QNA), Yousuf Ibrahim Al-Malki, has disclosed plans by the Agency to invite a number of journalists from the Liberia News Agency (LINA) to Doha for capacity-building training as part of a “Mutual Cooperation Partnership Agreement subsisting between the two institutions.
On Monday, April 30, a partnership agreement aimed at strengthening Mutual Cooperation and exchange of news between LINA and QNA was signed by the two parties at the Ministry of Information in Monrovia.
In addition to the Mutual Cooperation and exchange of news, the agreement also highlighted the exchange of knowledge and provision of training opportunities, technical and logistical support, among other things, by QNA to LINA.
In a meeting held at the headquarters of QNA on Tuesday July 2, between QNA Director General and the Charges d’Affaires of Liberia in Qatar, Ali Sylla, the Liberian envoy discussed with the QNA boss the provisions of the agreement.
Sylla said in a communication to Foreign Minister Gbehzohngar M. Findley that the discussion between him and Al-Malki focused on provisions of the agreement that place emphasis on technical and logistical support and training for counterpart with exchange of knowledge, among others.
Responding, the QNA Director General highlighted technical challenges of sharing News feeds with LINA and exhibited a detail communication between the two agencies and how he plans to resolve the technical challenges.
He stated that the proposal from the embassy would be looked into and will subsequently inform his counterpart of any development, agreeing, however, to invite a number of LINA journalists for training in the third quarter (July-September 2019) to Qatar.
