PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has lashed out at radio talk-shows, known as bimeeza, which he described as 'non-developmental'.

President Yoweri Museveni yesterday vowed to stop offensive programmes on local radio stations, which he said were full of lies about him and his government.

The media fraternity in Botswana, finds itself faced with a Media Practitioners Bill, recently published by the Minister of Communications, Science and Technology on the 27th June 2008, that demands a concerted response, consequent to its far reaching implications on Freedom of Expression and in particular Freedom of the Press.

The Media Council of Kenya has denied accusations that it intends to muzzle the Press through the introduction of laws requiring journalists to pay an annual subscription for them to be allowed to practise.

THE telecommunications sector is becoming a new gold rush where large white-owned companies pocket the wealth and leave nothing for the masses, says the chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa).

On 21 July 2008, Reporters Without Borders voiced its relief at the news of the release of Slim Boukhdir four months before the end of his sentence. The freelance journalist has been held since 26 November 2007 in very harsh prison conditions at the civil jail in Sfax, 230 kilometres south of the capital.

Earlier today, the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) made a submission to the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) calling for the hearing to investigate the alleged misconduct of the Constitutional Court Judges and Cape Judge President John Hlophe to be held in public. The FXI further supported the broadcast media's right to broadcast the hearing live. The Constitutional Court has laid a ...

The Botswana National Front (BNF) conference held over the President's Day holidays has resolved to reject the Media Practitioner's Bill.

Reporters have been advised to be vigilant when reporting on HIV and AIDS issues. Sunday Standard deputy editor Spencer Mogapi said this at an HIV workshop held in Gaborone last week.

A round table on the role of the social communication (media) sector in the promotion of public health happens this Thursday at the Journalists Training Centre (Cefojor), in Luanda.

It has become a common practice among political office holders to sponsor costly media adverts in order to bamboozle the people with their so-called achievements.

I am disappointed by the superficial comments made about the situation in Zimbabwe in the local press. I understand the position of Mr Lenoir who sees this as a black-white struggle, though the ambiguous positions of two diplomatic experts and the rush of the Mauritian government to hide behind the skirts of the SADC and President Mbeki of South Africa are far less comprehensible.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it is not in possession of the report of the House of Representatives Committee that recently conducted a probe of the power sector as being insinuated in media reports.

A member of Late Gen. Sani Abacha's strike force, Sergeant Barnabas Jabila (Alias Rogers), yesterday told an Ikeja High Court that Abacha's former Chief Security Officer (CSO), Major Hamza Al-Mustapha orderd him to kill Mr. Alex Ibru the Guardian Publisher and burn down Guardian office in Lagos in 1996.

Angola's Public Television (TPA) will inaugurate this Thursday, in Lisbon (Portugal), its international channel, under a governmental strategy for the social communication, meant to expand its broadcasting programme abroad, ANGOP has learnt.

With sessions over, the congress moved to the announcement of election results and presentation of awards. The election of the new Chairman of the IPI was communicated to delegates. He is Janne Sakari Virkkunen,

TWO presenters of Central Broadcasting Service (CBS), a radio closely linked to the Buganda Kingdom, were yesterday interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).

The Criminal Investigations Department of the police has interrogated two radio journalists of Central Broadcasting Service (CBS), the radio station affiliated with the Buganda kingdom.

A NEW content production company, 2.0, will launch next week, led by film producer Peter Gird and entrepreneur Jason Xenopoulos.

Following intense lobbying and campaigning by the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), the Observatory for the Freedom of Press, Publishing and Creation in Tunisia (OLPEC) and other IFEX members, freelance journalist Slim Boukhdhir, known for his outspoken views on the Tunisian President, has been freed - four months before the end of his sentence.

A visiting United Nations official yesterday said most negative media reports about Zimbabwe are discredited in the United States and Europe as nationals of those countries continue visiting the country.

MISA Zimbabwe cautiously welcomes the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between ZANU-PF and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as the three main political parties in Zimbabwe on 21 July 2008.

The Governor of Bauchi State, Ahlaji Isa Yuguda and Nasarawa State's Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma and former Governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other dignitaries will grace this year's edition of Nigerian Topleaders magazine award/symposium ceremony holding in Abuja in August.

Sunday Mail political editor Munyaradzi Huni and former Herald political editor Caesar Zvayi have become the first journalists to be added to the European Union smart sanctions in Zimbabwe. Zvayi is reported to have left Zimpapers and is now teaching at a university in Botswana.

A South African company, Globecast Satellite, which saw two of its employees acquitted of practicing journalism without accreditation in April 2008 by a Harare magistrate, is now being charged with illegal importation of broadcasting equipment in violation of the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA).