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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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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.

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

Eritrea is the bottom last in Press Freedom Index 2009

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Swaziland
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Development | Expression | Law | People | Policy | Policy

Swaziland media urged to speed up self-regulation process

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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Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Diplomacy | Events | People | Policy | War & Peace

New ‘Africa Also Smiles Poster’ campaign launched

afrol News, 8 September - The Africa Centre will launch its new ‘Africa Also Smiles Poster’ campaign on Thursday 10th September 2009, at the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, in O’ Connell Street, Dublin.

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Mozambique
Affairs | Crime | Law | Oppression | People

RSF relieved Cardoso’s murderer is back behind bars

afrol News, 31 August - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed relief at the recent recapture of Anibal Dos Santos Junior, the killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso, who had fled the country.

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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy

Four Uganda’s journalists face criminal charges

afrol News, 26 August - Four journalists from Uganda’s independent newspaper are facing criminal prosecutions, joining four others already charged since 2007, according to local reports.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Somaliland
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Law | Oppression | People | Policy

Union denounce conviction of journalists

afrol News, 11 August - The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has denounced the 9 August court decision against two radio journalists in Hargeisa, who were sentenced to prison terms as well as fines.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ethiopia
Affairs | Oppression | People

CPJ worried on new anti-terror legislation

afrol News, 24 July - The journalists’ organisation has expressed concerns about increasing restrictions on press freedom in Ethiopia in the wake of the pending adoption of an anti-terror legislation.

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Congo Kinshasa
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Violence | War & Peace

RSF denounces journalists’ harassment in Congo

afrol News, 21 July - Reporters Without Borders have condemned the police harassment and violence against journalists during the Republic of Congo elections held on the 12 July.

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Cameroon
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Violence

CPJ denounces death threats on journalist

afrol News, 15 July - The media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists, has denounced the recent spates of threats and harassment carried out by government on journalists.

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» 14.07.2009 - Foreign journalists abducted in Somalia
» 09.07.2009 - Political tension hampers media freedom
» 08.07.2009 - CPJ calls on Gambia to end media hostilities
» 18.06.2009 - Opposition leader calls for the release of journos
» 09.06.2009 - CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Somalia

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