by Franz Kruger | Feb 22, 2010 | Media freedom
THE SA National Editors Forum is concerned at a new clamp down on foreign and local media in Zimbabwe despite promises by the government that the country’s repressive media laws were under review and would be amended to restore media freedom, according to a...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 19, 2010 | Media freedom
THE Ugandan government wants CBS, the Buganda kingdom radio, to pay compensation for inciting the public to rise against lawful authority, write Hillary Nsambu and Andante Okanya in New Vision. In a counter-claim, filed at the High Court on February 12, the...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 19, 2010 | Media freedom
A 40-YEAR-OLD journalist, Mr Jude Okpara, was on Tuesday arraigned in court for obstructing the convoy of Nigeria's Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, writes Hussein Yahaya & Ibraheem A. Fatai for the Daily Trust. The journalist, who works with Champion...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 19, 2010 | Media freedom
THE president of the Madagascar's largest Protestant church has welcomed the release of two imprisoned church radio journalists, but has warned they are still facing trial for allegedly colluding in an army mutiny after reporting on the action, writes Fredrick...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 18, 2010 | Media freedom
THE arrest of a foreign journalist in Masvingo last week has prompted an angry reaction from press freedom groups and the government, with Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi lashing out at the police, writes Alex Bell for SW Radio Africa. Mzembi was left embarrassed after...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 17, 2010 | Media freedom
THE police is to charge a Catholic evangelist in northern Uganda, Angelo Pollino, with giving false information to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) last month, writes Jeff Lule in the New Vision. The head the of Police Anti Human Sacrifice and Trafficking...
