Public hearings for potential new broadcasters are being keenly watched by Zimbabweans desperate to finally be free of decades of the state broadcaster's tedium. [more]

In Rwanda, although voices in some quarters claim that he has gagged the media and left little room for opposition, many observers concur that Uganda's Yoweri Museveni’s former protégé and comrade Paul Kagame has to a great extent, fulfilled a great deal of his peoples’ expectations since leading the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) into Kigali and cutting short the 1994 genocide.[more]

La Vondron'ny mpanao gazety eto Antsirabe (VMA), ou association des journalistes d’Antsirabe, a organisé une porte ouverte pour le public, mercredi 19 octobre en la grande salle des pas perdus de la commune urbaine d’Antsirabe[more]

C'est incroyable mais vrai! L'équipe de journalistes, détachée de la RTG et en fonction à la présidence qui traditionnellement couvre les activités du chef de l'état aurait été renvoyeé de l'aéroport international de Conakry, Gbessia sans ménagement au départ du Pr Alpha Condé pour le Québec, le dimanche dernier. C'est la nième fois que cela arriverait, dit-on. C'est maintenant de coutume qu'une équipe de reportage soit traitée de telle façon. [more]

Government is set to finalise the drafting of the Pornography Bill which will help tame the publication of pornographic material in a section of Uganda’s media, Information Minister Mary Karoro Okurut has said.[more]

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) has challenged the Gambian Government to speak out on the whereabouts of journalist Ebrima Manneh.

FAJ President Omar Faruk Osman and his Vice-President Foster Dongozi took Gambia’s Justice minister Edward Gomez to task over his government’s silence regarding the whereabouts of the journalist who disappeared in 2006.[more]

A network for Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and journalists has been formed to help the two parties coordinate in supporting the public in human rights related issues that will also involve creating awareness.[more]

Luanda – The Angolan student Paulo Matias, aged 19, will release on 28 October his book entitled “Community Journalism in Angola: A Challenge for the Citizens’ Participation in the Life of the Community” at Luanda Economics High School (IMEL).

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It used to be enough to know how to read and write — not so long ago, these were skills that would help you move a few steps towards success in the world. This is still the case but these days there’s a whole new dimension to literacy that perhaps no one could have foreseen even just a decade ago. [more]

It is unlikely that the media will ever be gagged again as they were by the apartheid regime, SA National Editors' Forum chairman Mondli Makhanya said on Wednesday.[more]