There is incessant increase in the number of abuse of media rights on the African continent including deaths of practitioners with DR Congo, Mali, and Zimbabwe, Guinea cited among the countries censuring and flouting the purveyors’ rights to disseminate news without duress. The International Press Institute (IPI), a renowned watchdog, has
Author: Jeff Kapembwa
Zambia enacts Access to Information law
In what appeared too true to be true, Zambia has assented and enacted the Freedom of Information Bill into law, more than 20 years since the campaigners kick-stated the lobby to have the freedom to report-truthfully-factually. Over the years, various players including the Law Association of Zambia, various living and deceased
Don’t Gag Press Freedom, RSF urges Zimbabwe
Global media watchdog, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has urged authorities in Zimbabwe to guarantee unwavering freedom to Internet and social media access as over 6 million people go to the polls in the Southern African state. In recent months, the Emmerson Mnangagwa Government has slapped restrictive measures to foreign media houses,
Zambia nods ATI as campaigners lie in wait for enactment
After a 21-year-lull, advocates for the access to Information Bill can now sigh with relief after the Zambian Government committed to pushing the much heralded pledge into law-enhancing press and citizen’s unwavering freedom to information amid misinformation, disinformation and the emerging digital media. Zambia’s cabinet had during a meeting it held
ATI law in Zambia, a mystery?
Interest groups in Zambia have dropped their ' 'chins in disbelief'' by the authorities’ delay to enact the much touted Access to Information Bill into law, 21-years-after-a harsh reality on press freedom and abrogation of civil liberties of the citizens. Zambia’s fight for a law to provide latitude for citizens to
Zambia’s CSOs irked by belated ATI enactment
The Civil Society in Zambia have raised eyebrows over delays by the Zambia’s Government to enact the Access to Information Bill into law as it impedes media and public freedoms, a key tenet in a democracy. The 24-member coalition argues that despite repeated assurances by the ruling United Party for National
Zambia looks back to Cyber Act: Mutati
It came hastily barely months before Presidential and general elections in Zambia, arguably to stifle press and other freedoms and civil liberties, but the new Government believes its enactment was not done in good faith as it segregates some sections of society, media and some politicians. Technology and Science Minister Felix
Online female journalist bullying escalates in Africa
Women, media practitioners too, are now victims of online abuses and blackmail through con-consensual sharing of personal information since the advent of digital technologies, contrasting the United Nations’ call for global attainment of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5. The Goal endeavors to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
61 Mexican journalists killed
If investigative journalism or press freedom is criminal, then, the cost of practising is becoming risky as evidenced by the killing to date of over 55 practitioners in Mexico, fuelling concern by watchdogs over the unabated brutality. Since the early 1980s, journalists have either been killed through stab wound, imprisoned, reported
We’ll support ATI Law: Zambian lawmakers
Lawmakers in Zambia have given thumbs up over the stakeholders relentless quest to push for the enactment of the Access To Information (ATI) Bill into law this year and will render support as espoused under democratic tenets. Since 2002, media practitioners and other interest groups-donors alike have joined hands into pushing