Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Development | Diplomacy | Economy | Industry | Law | People | Policy
'Kenya's coalition is united'
afrol News, 2 May - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has downplayed claims by critics that the grand coalition government is cracking as evidenced by disunity between the President and the Prime Minister. Read more
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South Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Economy | Elections | HIV-AIDS | Law | People | Socio-economic
'South Africa faces threat'
afrol News, 29 April - The Democratic Alliance leader has told hundreds of people at the KwaZulu-Natal Freedom Day celebrations in Molweni, outside Durban that South Africa faced a new threat 14 years after the first democratic election. Read more
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Cameroon
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Elections | Expression | Violence | War & Peace
Critic musicians still detained
afrol News, 24 April - The Network of African Freedom of Expression Organisations [NAFEO] is deeply concerned about the repression of freedom of expression, including artistic in Cameroon where two renowned musicians continued to linger in jail for singing songs criticising a recent constitutional amendment that allowed President Paul Biya unlimited terms of office.
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Gambia
Affairs | Crime | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Gambian police went missing
afrol News, 7 April - After a bitter altercation with the government, a Gambian police officer has reportedly gone missing. This development comes on the heels of Momodou Lamin Dampha's detention at the police headquarters in the capital Banjul. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
MDC contests results delay
afrol News, 4 April - Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Friday filed "an urgent application" against the national electoral commission at the high court over its refusal to declare the presidential election results. Read more
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South Africa
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Law | Oppression | Oppression | People | Violence
Editors condemn death threats
afrol News, 4 April - South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) on Friday condemned alleged death threats made against their colleagues at South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Read more
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Namibia
Affairs | Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Economy | Elections | Law | People
Namibia gov't condones graft
afrol News, 2 April - Namibian authorities have been blamed for not taking aggressive stand on corruption, despite a surge in corruption-related stories on the country's print media over the years. Read more
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Affairs | Affairs | Development | Economy | Good governance | People | Policy | Socio-economic | Violence
Media stimulates development
afrol News, 1 April - African media has a very important role in stimulating the continent's development process, concurred the President of African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka.
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Chad
Affairs | Crime | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Chad press fights in unity
afrol News, 28 March - Chadian journalists have united in their fight against the decreeing of a law that censored press freedom by launching a "newspaper of newspapers" in the capital N'djamena on Friday. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Zim bars election coverage
afrol News, 27 March - The government of Zimbabwe has been condemned for barring leading
international news media from covering the next weekend's general
elections.
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Elections | Expression | Food Security | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Mugabe threatens investors
afrol News, 26 March - Prices of food in Zimbabwe have shot up ahead of the country's combined elections on 29 March. Believing that the act was part of the white investors' plots to endanger his re-election into office for the sixth time, President Mugabe has swiftly reacted, threatening to force businesses to reduce prices. Read more
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Egypt
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Economy | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Egypt's vocal editor jailed
afrol News, 26 March - A court in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Wednesday sent the country's most erudite and vocal editor to six months in prison for writing a story on the health of President Hosni Mubarak. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Crime | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Violence
Spy reporters await arrest
afrol News, 17 March - Zimbabwean authorities have warned that any western journalist that enter their country without official permission to cover the combined 29 March elections will be arrested.
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Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Development | Diplomacy | Economy | Elections | Ethnic | Good governance | Law | Oppression | People | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace
Kenya wants lost glory back
afrol News, 7 March - Now that the deadlock over the disputed presidential polls results has become history, Kenyan President said the next task is to establish a power-sharing government so that East Africa's former oasis of peace and democracy can win back its lost glory.
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Niger
Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Editor jailed over "discredit"
afrol News, 7 March - A court in the Nigerien capital Niamey has sentenced the editor of the independent bi-monthly 'L'Eveil Plus' to a month in prison for "discrediting" a court decision. Aboubacar Gourouza was also fined US $100. Read more
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Cameroon
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Poverty | Violence | War & Peace
Cameroon media faces crisis
afrol News, 4 March - Cameroonian journalists have found themselves caught up in crisis during and after street protests against rising fuel prices, cost of living and President Biya's attempts to butcher the constitution to run for yet another term in office. Read more
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Tanzania
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Finance | Macroeconomy | Socio-economic
Tanzania fund disburse stands
afrol News, 4 March - Both Tanzanian and European Commission officials have refuted some newspaper reports that European Union has delayed the East African country's Tsh900 billion aid package.
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Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Ethnic | Oppression | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace
Wade mediates Chad, Sudan mistrust
afrol News, 3 March - Ahead of the Organisation of Islamic Conference, Senegalese President is organising a mediation meeting between Chad and Sudan. Read more
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Niger
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Ethnic | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Violence | War & Peace
RSF chief denied Niger visa
afrol News, 3 March - Nigerien authorities have denied visa to the Secretary General of Rapporteur sans frontières (RSF) to participate in a special day of solidarity organised in honour of the organisation's imprisoned correspondent, Moussa Kaka. Read more
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Gambia
Affairs | Crime | Elections | Expression | Law | Oppression | People | Violence
Gambia editor returns to dock
afrol News, 28 February - The former editor of the 'Daily Observer', a pro-government newspaper, was back in the dock at the Banjul Magistrate's Courts to answer charges of publishing false information. Read more
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Swaziland
Democracy - Dictatorship | Oppression | Policy
One year since Swaziland's "Afrol affair"
afrol News, 25 February - This week marks the one-year anniversary of the "Afrol affair" in Swaziland, as Swazi media were obliged to apologise to King Mswati III over a reprinted news story originating from afrol News. According to media analysts, the apology and retraction of the "insulting" news story caused a big blow to press freedom in the authoritarian kingdom.
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Cameroon
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Expression | Law | Oppression | People
Cameroon minister closes TV
afrol News, 22 February - Cameroonian authorities on Thursday shut off a privately-owned television station from broadcasting, accusing its proprietor of failing to pay the required operational licence bond of €150,000.
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