Swaziland
Law | Policy
Swaziland to get broadcasting bill
afrol News, 12 March - The government of Swaziland has launched a bill to regulate the broadcasting sector in the country. Once the bill becomes law, a new commission will among other things, issue licences to TV and radio broadcasters, which could open up for private broadcast media in the kingdom.
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Ethiopia
Law | Oppression
Ethiopian media get record fines
afrol News, 10 March - The Ethiopian Supreme Court has ruled against four independent media houses, forcing them to pay record high fines that were originally rendered void under a 2007 pardon. Several can be forced to close down.
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Cameroon
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy | War & Peace
Cameroonian journos tortured
afrol News, 3 March - Cameroon's secret service has tortured two independent news journalists when they were detained in February, the country's press union, said in the statement. Read more
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Somalia
Affairs | Crime | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Religion | Terrorism | Violence | War & Peace
Journalist abducted in Somalia
afrol News, 23 February - Somali’s radical militant group, Al-Shabaab has abducted a reporter in the country on Sunday, local newspapers have reported. Read more
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Sierra Leone
Affairs | Cooperation | Crime | Development | Events | HIV-AIDS | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Sexuality | Violence
UN partners media to fight sexual violence in S/Leone
afrol News, 15 February - With not a single conviction resulting from the thousands of sexual violence cases reported last year in Sierra Leone, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is hoping the media can be a power ally in spotlighting how these offences go unpunished in the West African nation. Read more
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Cameroon
Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy
Two journalists arrested in Cameroon
afrol News, 9 February - Cameroon's secret service has arrested two journalists working for independent publications for possessing a document that could compromise powerful figures, news sources have said. Read more
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Libya
Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy
Unblock websites – rights group
afrol News, 4 February - Human Rights Watch has urged the Libyan authorities to stop blocking the internet sites. The country has blocked access to YouTube and at least seven independent websites claiming it was a disturbing step away from press freedom. Read more
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Chad
Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy | War & Peace
Court to rule on fate of local paper Thursday
afrol News, 4 January - A Chadian court is expected to rule on Thursday on the fate of a privately owned weekly, La Voix, after the authorities seized the paper in a bid to gag it, the newspaper’s lawyer Jean-Bernard Padare said. Read more
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Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
Media rights group condemns arrest of media players
afrol News, 17 December - The media rights organisation, Media Foundation for West Africa, has condemned the detention of a publisher and a printer following a newspaper report alleging that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government supplied arms to dissident forces in neighbouring Guinea. Read more
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Kenya
Development | Development | Entertainment | Finance | Industry | Infrastructure | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Social Services | Telecom | Telecom
Kenya goes digital
afrol News, 9 December - Kenya has switched to digital television today, amid concerns from the locals that high prices of converter boxes, used to convert analogue transmission to digital would hamper the migration of millions. Read more
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Ethiopia
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
RSF condemns closure of newspaper in Ethiopia
afrol News, 8 December - The international press-freedom organisation, Reporters Without Borders has denounced the climate of fear instilled in Ethiopia's independent media as the country prepares for 2010 national elections. Read more
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Guinea
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
Guinea's independent press group threatened by military
afrol News, 27 November - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has raised alarm with the safety and protection of the media in Guinea following an alleged plot by the military junta, targeting the independent media. Read more
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Uganda
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Development | HIV-AIDS | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Social services | Social Services
Uganda partners with media to fight HIV/AIDS
afrol News, 10 November - The Ugandan government has formed an alliance with the media to focus on prevention programmes, in re-shaping its strategy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Read more
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