The Secretary General of the Press Union of Liberia Philip Sandi has made an impassioned plea to all groups funding the 2011 elections to ensure technical and financial support to private media entities and individual journalists covering the 2011 elections. [more]

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's social media was abuzz with users urging their friends to vote peacefully in Wednesday's referendum, or keeping followers abreast with events throughout the east African country.[more]

Google Uganda, on Monday launched two local language operations enabling about five million people access services in native languages. The launch of the Runyakitara and Luo languages at Makerere University in Kampala brings to five the number of local languages available on the Google Uganda domain.[more]

Timothy Kalyegira, a former Daily Monitor columnist and current publisher of an online newspaper, yesterday became the first Ugandan to face sedition charges arising from the use of new media. Police on Monday summoned Mr Kalyegira to appear for interrogation over reports that questioned whether it was really the Somali-based militants, the al-Shabaab, that bombed and killed atleast 80 people and injured others in Kampala last month.[more]

With just a week to go to a presidential election on 9 August, the Rwandan authorities are openly flouting the rules of the democratic game. Press freedom violations, including the jailing of journalists, the closure of news media and the murder of a newspaper editor a month ago, have intensified in the run-up to the election.[more]

"Telecom Namibia needs to change course and focus on profitability or face the risk of becoming another indebted state-owned enterprise (SOE) with decreasing significance for Namibia's telecommunication sector," leading telecoms expert Christopher Stork has warned in his latest review of the industry.[more]

Radio France International’s FM signal in Benin was restored Tuesday after 14 hours of silence.[more]

While I agree with the ANC that the news media in this country needs to be more accountable, trying to do this with the establishment of an independent appeals tribunal will end up creating a watchdog that not only has teeth but rabies as well.[more]

Chairperson of the Press Council of South Africa, Raymond Louw, on Monday took issue with a call by the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) for a statutory media appeals tribunal. [more]