Popular Cameroon radio journalist who had been missing following what a media rights group called an abduction has been found dead, his employer and police said on Sunday. Martinez Zogo was managing director of Yaounde-based private radio station Amplitude FM and the star host of a popular daily programme, Embouteillage (Gridlock). On
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Zimbabwe arrests first journalists under cybersecurity law
Zimbabwe’s press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting “false data messages.” The pair were charged on August 3 under the contentious Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, as amended through the Cyber and Data Protection Act, which became law
Zambian media divided over media council act
Media bodies in Zambia are divided over the proposed Zambia Media Council Act, 2021 Bill seeking to regulate their mode of operation amid concerns by government of escalating ‘fake news’ and other shortcomings inimical to the profession and violate citizens’ rights. Calls for regulations of the media practitioners have mounted in
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.
Zimbabwe’s press freedom, one step forward, three steps backward
For international journalist Jeffery Moyo, doing his job could land him in prison if Zimbabwe authorities have their way. “Journalism is a crime in Zimbabwe, and the regime is reactive to independent journalism,” says Moyo, an international correspondent for the New York Times and the Inter Press Service (IPS). Criminalising journalism Moyo (37)
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
Newspaper tax threatens industry: MISA
Zambia’s re-introduction of 16% Value Added Tax on digital and newspaper sales is an affront to media freedom and should be reversed to save industry, interest groups have warned. The 2022 budget for the fiscal year 2022 has re-introduced and passed an amendment to the VAT Act, adjusting the standard rate
Zambia to expedite access to information law
Zambia’s quest to enact the ‘belated’ Access To Information (ATI) Bill has inched closer after the Government reaffirmed its commitment to actualize it into law, premised on practitioners being responsible and accountable to their role as fourth estate. Last year, Information and media minister Ms. Chushi Kasanda had assured various stakeholders
Zambia court rules liquidation of Post newspaper as illegal
After eight years of protracted legal battle between liquidators of the once famous and critical private publication-the Post, the Court in Zambia has reversed the decision, describing it illegal with calls to re-start the process. In 2016, the Post, a fiery critic of the defunct newspaper was placed under liquidation over