AT least five journalists covering the Presidential and legislative elections in DR Congo, Africa’s fifth largest in which over 44 million have cast their votes to elect a new leader, have suffered various forms of humiliations amid delayed results with incumbent Felix Tshisekedi reported to have taken an early lead. Journalists,
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Press no longer free in Africa: IPI
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
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
Zimbabwe criminalises journalism: RSF
Journalists in Zimbabwe face death sentences, life imprisonment and other heavy penalties should authorities in Southern Africa sign into law Criminal Law ahead of the country’s polls on 23 August, as global watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, lobbies for media rights to inform. Once the draconian Bill– called the Criminal Law (Codification
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
No More Impunity for Journalists’ Murders: CPJ
HRW urges probe over Cameroon journalist’s death
Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Cameroon to launch an independent inquiry into the killing of a popular radio journalist who had spoken out against graft. Martinez Zogo, 50, who regularly attacked financial sleaze and cronyism in the central African nation, was abducted on January 17 outside a police station