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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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Egypt
Expression | Oppression

Egypt releases blogger facing military trial

afrol News, 9 March - An Egyptian blogger, who was facing jail after he published a post alleging nepotism within the armed forces, has been released. He however had to apologise publicly to avoid a military trial.

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Africa | World
Cooperation | Development | Expression | Finance | Policy | Policy

Africa media development projects awarded funding

afrol News, 4 March - At least thirty-three media projects in Africa have been approved for funding by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for the new budget year.

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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.

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Rwanda
Oppression

Three slapped with jail terms

afrol News, 24 February - A court in Kigali has sentenced three journalists to prison over a story reporting on an extramarital affair between the mayor of the capital, Kigali, and a government minister.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Zambia
Oppression | People

Government must stop media attacks

afrol News, 25 January - The Federation of African Journalists has lashed at Zambia's Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani’s directive to investigate the legality of the Association of Zambia (PAZA) executive committee.

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Libya
Development

Libyan Journal of Medicine joins mainstream publishing

afrol News, 8 January - The Libyan Journal of Medicine (ljm) has joined Co-Action Publishing in its portfolio, the company announced yesterday.

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Mauritania
Oppression

CPJ demands release of detained editor

afrol News, 6 January - The international rights organisation, Committee to Protect Journalists has called for the release of the editor of Taquadoumy information site, Hanevi Ould Dehah, saying his continued detention is illegal.

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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.

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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.

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Ethiopia
Affairs | Diplomacy | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy

Sweden minister speaks on freedom of expression in Ethiopia

afrol News, 17 December - Freedom of expression is increasingly being limited in Ethiopia. The Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson, has said.

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Rwanda
Affairs | Crime | Ethnic | Law | People | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes

Rwandan journalist gets life over genocide charges

afrol News, 14 December - A former Rwandan journalist Valerie Bemeriki was sentenced to life imprisonment for her role in the 1994 infamous genocide.

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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.

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Egypt | North Africa
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy

Arab states slammed for using excessive force

afrol News, 9 December - Cairo based human rights group says the Arab world has flawed the human rights in the current year.

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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.

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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.

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Nigeria
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy

Media warns legislators against enacting anti-media law

afrol News, 17 November - The Nigerian media has cautioned the National Assembly against enacting laws affecting practice of journalism in the country, expressing fear that a bill might pose an impediment to free flow of information.

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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.

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Somalia
Policy

Somalis push for liberalised media law

afrol News, 4 November - Stakeholders from the Somali press, government and civil society are negotiating changes to the 2007 media law, with an aim of reforming the so-called "repressive articles" and secure greater press freedom in the country.

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Nigeria
Corruption | Crime | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Telecom

Nigeria cracks a whip on cyber fraudsters

afrol News, 23 October - Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has clamp down about 800 scam email addresses and nabbed 18 people high profile syndicates who specialise in cyber crime.

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» 21.10.2009 - Eritrea is the bottom last in Press Freedom Index 2009
» 16.10.2009 - Chad expels Cameroon editor
» 06.10.2009 - UNESCO chief condemns killing of Nigerian editor
» 29.09.2009 - UN hails Sudanese order to lift censorship

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