The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has appealed to the media to help protect and preserve the unity of the country.

The training of some 250 journalists under Ghana’s much touted Media Capacity Enhancement Programme (MCEP) has begun in Kumasi.

The capacity enhancement programme which is a weeklong intensive media training initiative sponsored by the Ministry of Information trained journalists on emerging issues in journalism, enhanced their skills, provided a platform to support media-introspection on subject related to media management, corporate governance, and media business models and encouraged ethical journalism.

The training for the first set of journalists under the Media Capacity Enhancement Programme (MCEP) has ended.