Blue TN organized an event on environmental corruption in Tunisia in partnership with the Friedrich Neumann Foundation and the Centre Africain de perfectionnement des journalistes et communicateurs CAPJC on November 11, 2022.
Our guests include Gaëlle Borgia, a reporter for the past 10 years who has worked with several international media, including France 24, TV5 Monde and Arte from Madagascar. She was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize along with several New York Times journalists for her investigation into Russian interference in Madagascar.
I’m often criticized here in Madagascar for my reporting.
Gaëlle Borgia
With these words filled with sadness and disappointment, G.Borgia described the campaigns of intimidation and harassment she had to endure as a result of her investigations.
During the interview, she talked about environmental corruption in Madagascar, which she believes is perpetrated by the country’s political elite, and about the obstacles she encountered when interviewing and obtaining information from whistle-blowers, who are often threatened with death.
Gaëlle and more than 60 environmental journalists of 34 different nationalities, from all regions of the globe, of all backgrounds, sensitivities and media, together with Reporters Without Borders (RSF), have signed a declaration at COP26 defending the right of access to environmental information and denouncing the obstacles that limit the right to inform on these issues, which are so crucial for the whole of humanity. They hope that this right will be respected and that environmental journalists will be able to carry out their work in safety.
