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afrol News, 22 October - The South African government has announced a R400 million (about US$54 million) scheme to help poor households to be able to switch from analogue to digital when the country moves to a total digital broadcasting in November next year.

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afrol News, 21 October - Eritrea is the world’s worst country for press freedom, Reporters Without Borders said in the Press Freedom Index 2009 issued Tuesday.

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afrol News, 29 September - The United Nations has today welcomed the reported decision by the Sudanese President, Omar Al-Bashir, to immediately lift censorship on Sudanese newspapers.

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afrol News, 9 September - A Swazi High Court Judge, has urged the Swazi media to speed up the process of self-regulation.

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afrol News, 24 August - Representatives of 39 African Countries, gathered in the city of Abuja in Nigeria to make final maneuvers and set sails towards finishing line of 1st January 2010, when consumption of CFCs and Halons will be assigned to history books, the African Press Organisation reported today.

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» 31.07.2009 - Positive reforms as Zim lifts media restrictions
» 28.07.2009 - Dow Jones wins SA tourism 2010 contract
» 21.05.2009 - Sahrawis launch national television
» 14.05.2009 - Tanzanian newspaper faces closure from harsh court decision
» 14.05.2009 - Kenya to dispel repressive clause in media law
» 27.04.2009 - Rwanda suspends BBC broadcast for being bias
» 12.01.2009 - RSF condemns sentencing of Cameroonian editor
» 26.11.2008 - Moroccan-Saharawi soap opera in Denmark
» 19.11.2008 - Rwandan media denounce Kabuye's indictment
» 08.10.2008 - Kenyan ex-journalist detained for "spreading false information"
» 07.10.2008 - MISA Zimbabwe acknowledges proposed ICT bill
» 25.09.2008 - Zambia calls off live radio phone-in programmes
» 17.09.2008 - Swaziland frees airwaves
» 13.06.2008 - Egypt meets software piracy head on
» 23.05.2008 - Morocco "winning Sahara propaganda war"
» 02.05.2008 - 'Kenya's coalition is united'
» 01.04.2008 - Media stimulates development
» 07.03.2008 - Kenya wants lost glory back
» 14.01.2008 - Gambia gets alternative media
» 12.11.2007 - African editors set for AU
» 21.08.2007 - Senegal radio wins broadcast rights
» 05.06.2007 - Mandela shares wisdom with journalists
» 05.06.2007 - Golden Pen given jailed Chinese journalist in SA
» 25.05.2007 - WAN congress gets major business support
» 11.05.2007 - Senegal erects multi-million dollar press house
» 15.03.2007 - Mauritania state media praised for election coverage
» 20.02.2007 - 6 African journalists honoured
» 29.01.2007 - South Africa's gays give media failing grade
» 26.01.2007 - Kenya journalists in labour conflict
» 18.01.2007 - Nigeria tops "press predator" list
» 24.11.2006 - Homosexuality now debated all over Africa
» 31.10.2006 - Selling sex, crime & soccer to South Africans
» 19.10.2006 - South Africans celebrate media freedom
» 05.10.2006 - Mauritania liberalises media law and broadcasting
» 26.05.2006 - Africans on the Internet: Maghreb most sex obsessed
» 12.07.2005 - Nigeria's media consolidating position
» 23.05.2005 - West African media network to be established by afrol News Canarias
» 13.05.2005 - Zimbabwe journalists go underground
» 18.04.2005 - Liberian editors study post-war survival in Uganda
» 18.04.2005 - Newspaper launched to advocate Zambia media reform
» 02.03.2005 - Sierra Leone press still weakened by war years
» 31.01.2005 - Zimbabwe Diaspora to launch weekly newspaper
» 21.01.2005 - New journalism school in Mozambique successful
» 19.10.2004 - Press in Mozambique still struggling
» 09.08.2004 - Infighting in Lesotho media environment
» 30.06.2004 - Zimbabwe-Namibia pro-govt paper in legal battle
» 03.06.2004 - Launch of new independent media in Gabon
» 29.04.2004 - Lesotho private media trapped between court and spies
» 05.01.2004 - Malawi 'Chronicle' 10 years: "It is tough being nr 1"
» 26.11.2003 - Algerian media create training network
» 12.11.2003 - Prominent Sudanese journalist flees country
» 06.11.2003 - Mauritian 'Express' lives to become 40
» 23.06.2003 - South African govt urged to allow community radio
» 13.06.2003 - New Angolan media law to enhance press freedom
» 04.06.2003 - 'New York Times' on Africa:
A tradition of pessimism continues
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