May 26
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Times Urged to Open Up Rural Offices
Times of Zambia
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services Deputy Minister Poniso Njeulu has urged Times of Zambia to consider opening more outlets in rural areas to enable more people have access to... Read more »
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Misa Pledges Solidarity With the Eastern Africa Journalists Association [press release]
MISA
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has pledged solidarity with the Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA), applauding the association for its continued good work... Read more »
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The Herald
Two days ago Robert Marawa hosted a party, live on television, to celebrate the broadcasting of the 100th episode of his weekly SuperSport sports magazine show, Thursday Night Live... Read more »
May 25
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Activists Arrested As Disturbing Crackdown On Media Continues [press release]
AI London
The Ugandan authorities must end an attack on freedom of expression that has left several media outlets shut by security forces for a fifth day, Amnesty International said today... Read more »
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Misa Welcomes Pan-African Campaign On Media Freedom [press release]
MISA
Aptly titled 'Press Freedom for Development and Governance: Need for Reform', this campaign is a fulfilment of a PAP Resolution - No PAP/P(3)/RES/08(1) - and it comes against the... Read more »
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MISA
MISA welcomes this long-overdue intervention and pledges unwavering support towards the full realisation of all campaign objectives. Read more »
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Police Raid Then Occupy the Daily Monitor
ThinkAfricaPress
Tensions remained high at the Daily Monitor office on Thursday, three days after police raided it and three other establishments as "a matter of national security". Police appeared... Read more »
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Radio Garowe Launches New Fm Station in Bossaso
Garowe Online
Radio Garowe, an independent FM radio based in Somalia's northern Puntland state and the sister organization of Garowe Online, has launched a new FM station in Puntland's port city... Read more »
May 24
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Managing Local Content Via Your Websitemag
Zimbabwe Independent
IN the last instalment TechnoMag had an opportunity to talk to executives behind the wheels of Zimbabwe's technology growth at a broadband forum sponsored by Telecel Zimbabwe and... Read more »
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Former Journalism Lecturer Threatens Justice Minister With Lawsuit [press release]
MISA
A former journalism lecturer at Zambia's largest public institution of learning, Clayson Hamasaka, has threatened the country's Justice Minister, Wynter Kabimba, with a lawsuit for... Read more »
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Censorship Reigns in Nord-Kivu Areas Under M23 Rebel Control [press release]
RSF
Fighting between M23 rebels and government forces has intensified near Goma, the capital of the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, since 20 May. As well as causing new civilian... Read more »
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Observer Editor Seeks High Court Bail Again
The Point
Alhagie Jobe, deputy editor-in-chief of the Daily Observer newspaper, through his lawyer has again filed a bail application at the Special Criminal Court in Banjul before Justice... Read more »
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Support for Press Freedom Day Debates in North Kivu [press release]
RSF
Reporters Without Borders provided funding for two round-table meetings that local journalists' groups organized for media personnel in the cities of Butembo and Goma, in the... Read more »
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New Era CEO Pow-Wows With Speaker
New Era
Media institutions should take government to task, engage politicians in substantive debate and make them respond to tough questions pertaining to critical issues that challenge... Read more »
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DRC Journalist Found Dead After Missing for 12 Days [press release]
CPJ
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should identify the motive behind the murder of a radio presenter who was found on Friday after being missing for 12 days, the... Read more »
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Rights Body Condemns Police Raid On Monitor, Red Peper
Observer
The Uganda Human Rights Commission has criticized the government for Monday's attack on independent media houses, Monitor and Red Pepper Publications. Read more »
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Bill Board of Shame to Be Put Up in Eldoret
The Star
Names of people or companies which engage in corruption in Uasin Gishu county will be put up on a large bill board in Eldoret town. Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago yesterday... Read more »
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Day 4 - Monitor, Red Pepper Remain Closed
Observer
Police today continued to ransack drawers, comb every inch of buildings in search of Gen David Sejusa-related documents as Daily Monitor, its sister FM stations Kfm and Dembe, and... Read more »
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Ping-Pong Over Ruto's Controversial Jet Continues
Capital FM
The back-and-forth between the Office of Deputy President William Ruto and the Daily Nation over the jet hired for his four-nation Africa tour continued on Thursday, with further... Read more »
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'Zim Can Have More Radio, TV Stations'
Zimbabwe Independent
ZIMBABWE has enough frequencies to licence more radio and television stations despite assertions by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) and... Read more »
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Court's Interpretation of 'Citizens' Limits Access to Information [press release]
IFEX
ARTICLE 19 welcomes a High Court decision that citizens have the right to access the information held by public and state owned corporations, but is highly concerned by the court's... Read more »
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Journalist's Body Found in River Bed 12 Days After His Disappearance [press release]
RSF
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn of radio journalist Guylain Chandjaro's death in Bunia, a city in the eastern region of Ituri. He was a Swahili-language journalist... Read more »
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PF Supporters Attack Muvi TV Journalists
Zambia Reports
Supporters of President Michael Sata's ruling Patriotic Front government this morning attacked two journalists, one of whom is a female newscaster, after the two went to cover a... Read more »
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MISA Calls for Urgent Media Reforms
Zimbabwe Independent
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Chapter (Misa-Zimbabwe) has made a passionate plea to government principals to urgently implement media reforms following the... Read more »
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ANHRI Demands the Authorities to Release the Blogger and the Journalist Mustafa El-Hasnawi [press release]
HRInfo
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuation of detaining the blogger and the activist "Mustafa El-Hesnawi" by the Moroccan Security Services... Read more »
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