All concerned citizens should take part in the second and final phase of public participation hearings on the Protection of State Information or "secrecy" Bill. It is your last chance to make your voice heard. [more]

Federal Government has ordered ministries, agencies, departments and all other public institutions to start implementing the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, saying that “all government institutions are required, subject to certain exceptions, to disclose information pursuant to a request by any person.”[more]

Soldiers guarding a city at the heart of ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria detained and later threw out journalists working for a French television station trying to cover the ongoing unrest there, the reporters said.[more]

KISS-FM, one of the losing applicants for commercial broadcasting licensing in Zimbabwe, has withdrawn its court appeal to set aside a regulator’s decision to award licences to companies linked with President Robert Mugabe’s party, writes a Jocoza correspondent. [more]

Neuf pays du continent africain font partis des 50 pays les mieux notés du classement mondial 2011-2012 de la liberté de la presse publié par Reporters sans frontières le 25 janvier.[more]

An African National Congress report into a "brown envelope" scandal involving former Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool and two Independent Newspapers journalists was released to the newspaper group on Monday. [more]

Zimbabwe’s independent media regulator says it has asked law enforcement agents to bar the distribution of unregistered foreign newspapers.[more]

The High Court ruling stopping any further public discussions on whether ICC suspects Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto can contest the presidency has elicited mixed reactions.

On Friday, the Media Council of Kenya said the court’s decision had gone against the freedom of expression as stated in the Constitution.[more]

The most remarkable thing about the ANC's input at hearings of the Press Freedom Commission this week was not its determination to create a media appeals tribunal, but the fact that it participated at all.[more]

A new report places Kenyans as the second top users of Twitter in Africa, surpassing countries in the Maghreb that had used the facility to stage political revolt.[more]