Outgoing chairman of the Zimbabwe National Editors’ Forum (Zinef), Iden Wetherell, has urged his colleagues to remain vigilant and work as a team to ward off a raft of measures introduced by government over the last few years to stifle the free flow of information.[more]

Dakar, Senegal - The sub-regional rights body Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and its partners are organizing a two-day meeting in Ghana, starting Wednesday, on “media and elections reporting in Africa,” MFWA said in a statement made available to PANA here Tuesday.[more]

The Media Council of Kenya has launched election coverage guidelines ahead of the next historic polls in Kenya.[more]

Swaziland is planning a censorship law that will ban Facebook and Twitter users from criticising its autocratic ruler, King Mswati III. [more]

The Ghanaian government has officially announced its decision to ban Multimedia group and its journalists from covering all state events. The country's deputy information minister, James Agyenim Boateng who announced the government's boycott told various media organizations that all government departments and agencies have also been instructed not to grant interviews or advertise on Multimedia networks.[more]

Proprietors of broadcast stations in the country are on a collision path with the government following the tabling last week of a Bill which could arm the State with legal powers to influence content of what is aired.[more]

Veteran human rights lawyer George Bizos argued in a submission to Parliament that the Protection of State Information Bill is unconstitutional on several counts.[more]

Staff at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) have gone back to work after a one-week strike which brought a loss estimated at $200 000 – but observers say the state broadcaster will need massive investment and a radical management shakeup if it hopes to achieve real reform.[more]

Striking Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) employees have been ordered to resume duty or face the sack. [more]

It is rare to find Africa ranked favourably on a global index. The recent Freedom House index, Freedom on the Net 2011 that identifies key trends on internet freedom in 37 countries, is an exception. The study measured each country’s level of internet and new media freedom and governments’ response to it.[more]