FAIR Board
Chairman
Senakpon Gérard GUEDEGBE was elected Chairman of the FAIR Board during an AGM on 30 October 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gerard is also Président of RJCE-BENIN , info@rjcebenin.net, based in Cotonou – Bénin and publishes the ‘Journal education Tribune’ www.rjcebenin.net/educationtribune
Deputy Chairman
Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi is political editor at Uganda’s leading independent media company, Monitor Publications Ltd. Besides hosting the most listened to political/current affairs talk show in Uganda, the Kfm Hot Seat on 93.3 Kfm Radio, Mwanguhya Mpagi investigates political affairs and human rights violations in Uganda. In 2007, Mwanguhya Mpagi and colleague Angelo Izama took government to court in an Access to Information lawsuit seeking to obtain public agreements with various international oil companies that are active in the western part of the country. The case is currently before the High Court in Uganda
Secretary General
Eva Flomo is a seasoned investigative reporter from the central region of Bong County in Liberia. She holds a BA degree in Mass Communications and Sociology and has worked in various newsrooms as a reporter, editor, news anchor and producer. Flomo currently produces and anchors the Liberia-UNMIL radio’s flagship current affairs program – Coffee Break on the United Nations Mission. Throughout her career Flomo has earned awards for best radio journalist, best producer and presenter. Her investigation into water pollution in Liberia was the main radio presentation at the African Investigative Journalism Conference in 2010 in Johannesburg.
Treasurer
John Grobler is an investigative reporter for the prestigious Namibian (Namibia) and the Mail & Guardian (South Africa). He also contributes to a number of other leading international publications. He has won a number of awards over the years, including the CNN Award for Business Journalism and the MISA Namibia Investigative Journalism Award. He is a former co-chair and a founding member of FAIR.
Suzana Mendes is the deputy Editor of Angolense, in Angola, and a long-serving FAIR member.
Eric Mwamba has been an investigative journalist since age 20. He was editor of the biweekly 2 Rives in Brazzaville in 2003-2004 and the pan-African magazine Africa News in Abidjan, 2006-2007. Having also served as chairman of FAIR in 2009, his investigations on the trafficking of young African soccer players and the plight of cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast have received wide international media coverage. Eric Mwamba is currently involved in a project called, Africa Media 21, which combines online daily, web radio and mobile phone information sharing.
Theophilus Abbah is the Editor of Sunday Trust, a national weekly publication by Media Trust Limited, with headquarters in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. Abbah has worked for the Sunday Trust from August, 2007, when he joined the newsroom as Investigations Editor and pioneered a desk charged with the task of investigative reporting and follow-up of story lines. Since his promotion to editor in July 2008 he has increased the paper’s focus on exclusive investigative stories. Abbah won the 2009 ‘Editors’ Courage’ FAIR award for his courageous publication, in spite of pressures from powerful forces, of a story that exposed political dynasties in Nigeria.
Justin Arenstein is FAIR’s founding chairman and is a veteran board member. Previously a Knight Fellow in the USA, Arenstein is publisher of the South African investigative social justice news agency, African Eye News Service (AENS), where he led a series of award-winning cross-border investigations into everything from illegal pharmaceutical trials and money laundering, to people smuggling, and government tender corruption. His reportage has won awards in South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, the USA, and UK.
Chief Bisong Peter Etahoben is a seasoned investigative journalist who has been practising journalism since the early 1970s. His work as an investigative journalist earned him the first Cameroon Investigative Journalist Award in 1992. As a budding journalist in the 70s, Etahoben was tried as a “terrorist” in a military tribunal because he contradicted government’s version of a story concerning the arrest of then leader of the UPC insurrection in the country, Ernest Ouandi who was then in the marquis. He was later freed and the case continued to be cited in the West Cameroon Law Journal for about thirty years. Etahoben has written extensively for international news media such as West Africa magazine, African Business, New African, Africa, Africasia,etc. He is the Proprietor and Editor/Publisher of the WEEKLY POST newspaper in Yaounde, Cameroon and is currently on contract with the Nation Media Group through which his stories and articles are published in media outlets around the world. Before setting up his own newspaper, he had edited almost all English-language newspapers in his country Cameroon including a bilingual (English/French) weekly. He is a traditional ruler in his native Manyu Division in the Southwest Region of Cameroon.
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