Addis Ababa will host the meeting of the International Media Club of the World Peoples Assembly held as part of the World Public Summit: Africa
On July 29, 2026, Addis Ababa will host the third meeting of the International Media Club of the World Peoples Assembly "Information Sovereignty of Africa and the crisis of trust in the media, the responsibility of a journalist in the age of neural networks" held as part of the World Public Summit: Africa "New World: Africa in shaping a shared future". The first two meetings were held in New Delhi (India) and Salvador (Brazil), respectively.
The moderator of the Media Club will be Evgeny Safronov, Head of the Media Center of the World Peoples Assembly, founder of the InterMedia news agency, journalist and analyst (Russia).
The Media Club will be attended by:
Philip Blesed Ossange— Founder and Strategist of JSP communications (Nigeria);
Alfred Lustik Mushi — Founder and Chairman of the Kili Voices Foundation, journalist for Daily Mail Tanzania (Tanzania);
Eric Biegon — Trustee of the charitable foundation, journalist at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Kenya)
Tariku - founder of Serve Global;
Zevdneh Abdi is the Editor—in-Chief of the Addis Media Network;
Eyasu Zakaria — Editor of Capital Newspaper;
Netsanet Jemal - editor of the Addis Media Network;
Hiwote Desalin — blogger of the Addis Podcast;
Tesfaye Getnet — Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the portal Fidelpost.com;
Clarissa Widorven - journalist, strategic communications specialist, co—founder and presenter of Global Insights (Cameroon).
Evgeny Safronov noted the importance of the upcoming discussion:
— At the meeting of the Media Club, we plan to discuss the most important tasks. For example, whether the media will help preserve the information sovereignty of African countries; how to regain the audience's trust in the news, as well as professional ethics issues in situations where algorithms and neural networks are increasingly solving problems in the information space.
The World Public Summit: Africa "New World: Africa in Shaping a Shared Future" will be held under the auspices of the World Peoples Assembly on July 29-30, 2026 at the United Nations Economic Commission in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). The event will bring together more than 700 representatives of international organizations, public institutions, government agencies, expert and business communities from 54 African countries.
Additional information is on the official websites of the World Public Summits and the World Peoples Assembly, as well as at media@world-assembly.org.