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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South Africa
Development | Development | Economy | Finance | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Trade
SA govt to subsidise poor TV owners go digital
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. Read more
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Cameroon | Chad
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy | War & Peace
Chad expels Cameroon editor
afrol News, 16 October - Chadian authorities have expelled the editor of the privately-owned weekly La Voix published in the capital N’Djamena. Read more
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Nigeria
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
UNESCO chief condemns killing of Nigerian editor
afrol News, 6 October - The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the recent killing of a Nigerian news editor, and called on authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. Read more
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Sudan
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Development | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | War & Peace
UN hails Sudanese order to lift censorship
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. Read more
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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy
Ugandan editors charged with sedition
afrol News, 25 September - Two editors of Uganda's weekly newsmagazine, "The Independent", have been arrested, charged with sedition and were released by the court on bail on Wednesday. Read more
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Niger
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy
Nigerien editor face criminal libel charge
afrol News, 25 September - A newspaper editor in police custody in Niger since Sunday was charged with criminal libel on Wednesday in connection with a story accusing a top official of involvement in a corruption scandal, according to local journalists and news reports. Read more
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Somaliland
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | War & Peace
Crackdown on independent media ahead of election
afrol News, 25 August - The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for an end to an ongoing government crackdown on independent journalists in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland, ahead of the election scheduled for 27 September. Read more
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Nigeria
Development | Development | Management | People | Social Services
African journalists join the climate change campaign
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. Read more
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Congo Kinshasa
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
JED calls for investigation of journalist's death
afrol News, 24 August - The Journaliste en danger (JED) has called on representatives of the UN Mission in the Congo (MONUC) and Bukavu provincial authorities to work together in investigating the exact circumstances of the death, on 23 August 2009, of Radio Star journalist Bruno Koko Chirambiza. Read more
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Morocco
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Policy
IFJ condemns seizure of magazines in Morocco
afrol News, 5 August - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly condemned the order issued last Saturday by the Minister of the Interior in Morocco to seize and destroy over 100,000 copies of two weeklies, TelQuel and Nichane magazines, which carried results of an opinion poll on King Mohammed VI's decade on the throne. Read more
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World | Zimbabwe
Affairs | Development | Diplomacy | Economy | Finance | Oppression | People | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | War & Peace
Positive reforms as Zim lifts media restrictions
afrol News, 31 July - Reforms in the Zimbabwe could see the country’s media regain its independence with the airwaves also opening up for the much needed independent reporting of events in the country. Read more
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South Africa | World
Cooperation | Development | Development | Economy | Entertainment | Events | Events | Finance | Social Services | Tourism | Tourism | Trade
Dow Jones wins SA tourism 2010 contract
afrol News, 28 July - The South African Tourism has appointed Dow Jones to monitor, analyse and evaluate media in the country’s 15 international target markets in the run-up to the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and beyond. Read more
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