In her letter responding to the concerns I raised in a column last month about SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle, newly appointed board member Pippa Green carefully avoids answering most of the questions I posed. She ignores most of the examples I cited and, in effect, says that any management or news corruption that occurred at the SABC happened either before Mokoetle was appointed to a position of influence or after he left.[more]

Foroyaa published the following information after Gambia submitted its report on the Human rights situation in the Country: [more]

Speaking in Nakasongola, he urged the Baruuli, one of the tribes seeking autonomy from Buganda, to stand firm and defend their culture against what he said were efforts by Mengo to wipe it out. [more]

Exiled radio stations, labelled pirates by the Robert Mugabe regime have once again come under attack from ZANU PF during a protest march by hundreds of youth members through the streets of Harare on Wednesday.[more]

Cape Town— Job cuts are looming at the SABC as the new board and CEO Solly Mokoetle strive to slash costs and reduce the bloated head count of nearly 4000 employees.[more]

Is it cynical to say opposition leaders should use adverts in the media, emails, sms, and fliers? While in Pader recently, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Kizza Besigye was scheduled to be hosted on the local radio station, Luo FM radio. He had booked time and paid Shs 800,000 for the privilege. But at the last minute, he was blocked and his money refunded. He was told the talk show could not be hosted because of an order from the local representative of President Yoweri Museveni in the district, the RDC.[more]

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha has described as erroneous a political a statement by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that the current Government has lost credibility that late president Levy Mwanawasa garnered as champion of press freedom.[more]

A Catholic evangelist who told a BBC reporter that he committed 70 ritual murders has been charged with giving false information to a public officer.[more]

Government has unveiled the National Information Communication strategic plan that will run from 2010 to 2014, and is expected to usher the country into the global information "super highway".[more]

African telecommunications regulators have been tasked to ensure the harmonization of policies to encourage frequency distribution that would boost mobile broadband and enhance the chances of benefiting from digital dividends.[more]

The Buganda Kingdom has rejected a raft of conditions the government wants CBS Radio to comply with before it could be reopened, saying it will not apologize, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za.[more]

Johannesburg - A high level task team will be formed to discuss communication problems between the media and police, the SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef) and the SA Police Service said in a joint statement on Wednesday.[more]

South Africa’s Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) has said that it would push for legislation to protect the confidentiality of journalist’s sources, APA has learnt here.[more]

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha has described as erroneous a political a statement by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that the current Government has lost credibility that late president Levy Mwanawasa garnered as champion of press freedom.[more]

The unity government has been criticised for failing to fulfill its promise of media reform, in a press report that has detailed how Zimbabwe has the most exiled journalists in Africa over the past decade. [more]

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, says it sanctioned about 35 broadcast stations for various breaches of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code in January 2010.[more]

Media owners on Monday raised the alarm over attempts to derail the search for a new constitution.[more]

Maputo — Lucia Afate, a parliamentary deputy for Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, is suing journalist Jose Vasco da Gama over a story that appeared in the weekly paper "Magazine Independente" (MI) last year, which claimed that Afate had secretly married Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama in a traditional ceremony in the northern province of Nampula.[more]

Recent events in the country have prompted me to publish this piece I originally authored for a youth conference in 2008 in Abuja that did not hold. I feel it is pertinent to draw the attention of media professionals to the dangerous trend and dimension media coverage of the Jos crises have assumed.[more]

Lesotho is migrating to a new digital broadcasting platform for both television and radio, writes Mzimkhulu Sithetho for journalism.co.za.[more]

Julius Malema has blamed the government companies register, a smear campaign run by leftist ANC officials and "unethical" journalists for "unfounded" media reports that he says have placed his life and that of his family in danger.[more]

Abuja —National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has sanctioned 35 broadcast stations across Nigeria in January 2010.[more]

Fresh from his initial triumph in a libel case against this paper as lawyer for one of former President Charles Taylor's organized and leftover companies, Consolidated Group Inc. Cllr. Marcus Jones has files another libel case the Front Page newspaper as lawyer for the auditing firm Voscom.[more]

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has suspended the broadcast license of Communication Trends Limited with effect from February 8, 2010. The suspension of the broadcast license followed a continued breach of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code by the broadcasting organisation[more]

Harare — President Mugabe has formally appointed former ZBC newscaster Mr Godfrey Majonga to chair the new Zimbabwe Media Commission, a body whose creation is mandated by the Global Political Agreement and Constitution.[more]

Human rights activists want the central government to reopen the closed Central Broadcasting Service saying its continued closure is an infringement on the rights and freedom of expression media.[more]

Media educators and professionals, as well as representatives of intergovernmental organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on Friday highlighted the need for the establishment of a training programme for local radio and television presenters.[more]

Some light filtered into the country’s battered media landscape on Friday with the gazetting of the new Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC), but players in the media industry are not celebrating yet. The Minister of Media, Information and Publicity, Webster Shamu on Friday announced that the ZMC members had been appointed with effect from February 11, in accordance with section 100N of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.[more]

Liberia, located on the west coast of Africa, was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in an effort to find a home for black slaves who had gained their freedom in America following the American War of Independence. The settlement also founded, with the assistance of the American government, to abolish slavery and to spread Christianity in Africa.[more]

The present crop of Nigerian radio broadcasters have fallen short of and diminished the glory days of broadcasting in Nigeria. Before you accuse of hasty generalisation and of being fixated on the past, let me add that there are a few exceptions to this fact and also advice you to read this piece to the end.[more]

The Buganda kingdom has run broke and implementation of its flagship development projects have stalled.[more]

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Africa programme research associate Mohamed Keita has said the MMD government has lost much of the credibility that late president Levy Mwanawasa earned as a champion of press freedom.[more]

Abuja — The minister of information and communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili has commended the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, and the Nigerian Military for exhibiting a high degree of patriotism in the defence of democracy in Nigeria.[more]

Loyal Radio Wave listeners, who tuned in yesterday morning to listen to their favourite ‘shock-jock’ duo – the Waking Crew’s Jarret Loubser and Christine ‘Mossie’ Mostert – were instead met with a sombre announcement from station manager Margaret Loubser stating that the Waking Crew had been suspended pending an internal investigation. It has been difficult to get an official version of events, but The Namibian has managed to piece together yesterday’s events from sources close to Radio Wave.[more]

The Government is to investigate allegetions that opposition politicians are being denied air time on private television and radio stations, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Chief Whip in Parliament, Daudi Migereko has said. [more]

A 2009 model of youth media consumption indicates that traditional media, such as television, catalogues and magazines generally have a stronger influence on purchase decisions of secondary education learners than new media, such as cellphones and the Internet.[more]

A media watchdog , Reporters Without Borders, says the authorities in Eritrea have been holding in solitary confinement journalist and essayist, Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu, for one year.[more]

The Government wants CBS, the Buganda kingdom radio, to pay compensation for inciting the public to rise against lawful authority. [more]

Godfrey Mutabazi, the chairman of the Uganda Broadcasting Council, has been summoned to court on April 20 to explain the ban on open-air radio talk-shows popularly called bimeeza. [more]

London — Duncan Irvine originally worked as a contactor for MNet in South Africa doing on-air promotions but in 1993 he was behind a management buy-out of the company. However, since that point he has shifted the company from this type of work to producing global TV formats including Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing, Who Do You Think You Are?, It's A Knockout and So You Think You Can Dance.[more]

To report on the World Cup without putting Fifa before it, is not only incorrect — Fifa owns the event and its trademarked title — but is likely to have Sepp Blatter red-carding any media outlet stupid enough to perpetrate such a foul. They have put millions into the event, the least we can do is call it by its proper name.[more]

Information reaching this reporter has it that Mr. Lamin Njie and Saikou Ceesay of the Daily News were arrested on Tuesday 16th February 2010 prompting Foroyaa to investigate the matter.[more]

Tamale — Barely a month after The Chronicle challenged the National Media Commission (NMC) to keep an eagle eye on, and closely monitor the activities of Radio Presenters in the Tamale Metropolis before they throw the area into uncontrollable pandemonium, the Northern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has also registered its dissatisfaction about the work of radio stations in Tamale.[more]

High Court judge Vincent Zehurikize has put on hold the case of CBS employees against the Government over the closure of the radio station, asking the lawyers to find an out-of-court settlement.[more]

The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) yesterday called for Government to introduce a “Citizens’ Budget”, a simplified document that would spell out what Government is trying to do with the taxpayer’s billions in laymen’s terms.[more]

The Civil Society Organisations have commended the media for coming up with a self regulatory body. The Media Liaison Committee last week announced that it will officially launch its self-regulatory Zambia Media Council (ZAMEC) by 3rd May 2010.[more]

I read with interest Anton Harber’s column (Up to editors to inspire despondent newsrooms, February 17), where he laments that “reporters feel disempowered working at the mercy of complacent editors” and criticises editors who forever chant the mantra: “We are a business, we are about making money”. He then goes on to say that good editors should “motivate a team of people to sense the zeitgeist, find the stories that capture it and process them”. [more]

If the Central Broadcasting Service had a case to answer, the government should have taken the radio station to court as soon as the September city riots ended. Instead President Museveni chose dialogue that initially came as a meeting with the Kabaka of Buganda after the September 11 riots. Majority of Baganda in the villages thought that the CBS fate would be resolved immediately after the Kabaka-Museveni meeting. But the elite Baganda rightly remained sceptical about the whole meeting.[more]

Editing a newspaper is about motivating a teacm of people to give of their best, and produce gritty, powerful journalism, writes Anton Harber in Business Day. Judging by the air of depression that seems to be pervasive in many newsrooms, too few editors are succeeding in doing that.

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Botswana Television (Btv) looks set to adopt the latest broadcast digital technology, known as the ISDB, popularised by Japan and Brazil.[more]

Windhoek – Politicians and experts on gender-based violence should make themselves available and take part in discussions and debates to create awareness among the public. [more]

Media in Sub-Saharan Africa are ill-prepared to cover and report on conflict, a top panelist argued during the launch of a report looking at the state of media globally, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za.[more]

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day… Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.[more]

The arrest of a foreign journalist in Masvingo last week has prompted an angry reaction from press freedom groups and the government, with Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi lashing out at the police.[more]

The migration from analogue to digital TV broadcasting by 2015 will not be easy for East African countries. [more]

The sub-regional rights watchdog, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has called for the repeal of all 'laws which restrict media freedom' in Mauritania while condemning the recent two-year imprisonment handed down to Hanevi Ould Dahah, publisher of the online paper (www.tagadoumy.com), PANA reported Monday.[more]

Kampala: Yonas Embye talks without pause for breath. His ideas are fired scattergun-style, revealing insights from his multiple personalities – journalist, torture victim, humanitarian worker, escapee extraordinaire. But his message is clear. “I must express myself,” he says, shifting restlessly. “Sometimes I cannot sleep because I have to get the word out about my colleagues back home.”[more]

The Fifa show is rolling into SA, bringing the promise of World Cup excitement, crowds and other benefits, writes Franz Kruger, the Mail & Guardian's ombud. But it also brings media restrictions that are completely unacceptable.[more]

Struggle for the soul of journalism is taking place in various forms all over Africa. While in many countries, the battle to install transparency, probity and accountability in public service is breaking barriers and boundaries there is the attempt to raise the welfare of practising journalists in others.[more]

Freetown — The Independent Media Commission (IMC) has turned down a Freetown City Council (FCC) application for a license to establish a radio station in the municipality.[more]

Abuja council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Tuesday tasked acting President Goodluck Jonathan and the Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo, to leave nothing to chance in ensuring that the killers of Efenji Efenji, an ex-reporter of the Africa Independent Television (AIT), are brought to justice.[more]

The importance of the media in any society cannot be over-emphasised, and through the advent of technology, the world has become a global village. The media perform the role of teaching, informing, educating and entertaining the public, in addition to encouraging socio-economic and political development in nations of the world, Nigeria inclusive. [more]

Borno is tension-soaked after Al-Jazeera released a video showing persons in police uniforms ordering the killings of unarmed civilians in the Boko Haram sectarian crisis. Over 1,000 people were believed to have died and properties destroyed.[more]

Botswana Television may be blocked from transmitting its signal,s allegedly for failure to pay rental arrears for use of satellite space.[more]

Information and technology minister Aggrey Awori has said a Government team is scheduled to meet the board of directors and shareholders of the CBS radio next week to iron out issues. [more]

Media groups have described the arrest last week of distributors of The Zimbabwean newspaper as demonstration of the unity government’s insincerity about media reforms.[more]

Many observers believe that the imminent closure of Femina magazine - and possibly of more titles in the near future - is a clear indication that South African magazines are in deep trouble. Bizcommunity.com sought comment from analysts to clarify the issue.[more]

Over 40 journalists from different media houses in the country on Friday concluded a training workshop on the new media laws, which were recently gazetted.[more]

The American government has strongly condemned Gambian authorities over the tiny West African country's anti-media laws, arguing that such repressive laws are not in line with democracy and they "should never be used to suppress'' democratic rights of the people, PANA reported Saturday.[more]

In The New Vision editorial of February 9, the newspaper joined the chorus of government officials in condemning CBS FM for allegedly calling upon Baganda to take action against people with long noses who threaten to take away their land and the Government which has a hidden agenda to kill Baganda. [more]

Cairo- Not long ago an editorial like the one that appeared in the independent Al- Dustour newspaper this week might never have made it into print.[more]

The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) has resolved to revive its discussions with senior police leaders to secure the media’s right to report crime stories.[more]

Former Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) acting Director General Matthew //Gowaseb decided to exit public life after his NBC ordeal.[more]

Erongo’s Police Chief, Commissioner Festus Shilongo, says the media misinterpreted the Police’s recent announcement that they won’t release regular crime bulletins any longer.[more]

Fort Portal: The government is blocking the Forum for Democratic Change from appearing on radio because it wants to keep rural residents in the dark about their current problems, the party’s leader has said. [more]

Mengo remains adamant on the issue of CBS. Buganda’s attorney general, Apollo Makubuya, does not see any wrong committed by the Buganda-kingdom owned radio station. Instead, he wants the Government to apologise for what he calls breach of the Constitution and the loss of lives. [more]

Nairobi — Access to information is one of the biggest challenges facing the media in Africa. And although leaders in the continent often underscore the importance of freedom of information in development, only five countries in sub-Saharan Africa have passed laws allowing freedom of information.[more]

The staff of the UK based The Zimbabwean newspaper responsible for the local distribution of the paper in Zimbabwe were on Thursday charged under the Criminal Law Codification & Reform Act for publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the State.[more]

Maputo — Mozambique has a political and legal framework that is generally favourable to freedom of expression, and to pluralism and diversity in the media, although constraints still persist in the practical application of media-friendly laws and policies.[more]

A three-member cabinet team led by Vice-President John Nkomo has been tasked to summon editors from the state and independent media to discuss as a matter of urgency ‘hate speech’ in the media.[more]

Former South African President Thambo Mbeki will lead a galaxy of global personalities to Kenya next month and will preside over a Pan African Media Conference that will seek a path for traditional media in the face of rising citizen journalism, writes Dennis itumbi for journalism.co.za.[more]

More than two million Kenyans are on Facebook, with new research indicating that the popular social networking website is slowly edging out the e-mail as the preferred mode of electronic communication.[more]

The other day I got a call from a student of media studies at Ryerson University in Toronto. She wanted to know my opinion on how Western media cover Africa. What bias do I see in the way Africa is written and reported about in the Canadian media, for example, she asked.[more]

Journalists in Akwa Ibom State have threatened to boycott activities of an American oil exploration and exploitation firm, ExxonMobil, saying the mode of operation of the oil giant in the state does not add value to the socio-economic well being of the state.[more]

The House of Representatives yesterday mandated its committees on Human Rights, Police Affairs and Justice to investigate a video clip that has been airing on Al-Jazeera, an international news station which showed extra judicial killings of defenceless cripples and underage citizens by men of the Nigeria Police Force, during the Boko Haram sectarian violence in Borno State, last year.[more]

A seven-member team has taken office as new board members of the Media High Council (MHC), a public institution charged with regulating the sector.[more]

In her recent presentation to delegates at the SAARF/AMF TV Information Forum, independent media consultant Lorna Long from Media Spice called 2010 a watershed year for TV planning. She predicts that by 2014, the South African TV arena could be radically changed.[more]

The Japanese government has given Rwanda Television (RTV) a grant of 46.1 million Japanese Yen today (approx $0.5m).[more]

Harare — Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has rebuked privately-owned newspapers and online news agencies for tarnishing the force's image by reporting falsehoods.[more]

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has complained that some rural FM radio stations have declined to host party president Dr. Kizza Besigye, reports Andante Okanya.[more]

New Board members of the Media High Council (MHC) yesterday assumed office after a handover ceremony witnessed by the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, also current overseer of the information docket, Protais Musoni. [more]

Journalist Jerry Muro is led to the courtroom at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam.[more]

People who really care about the situation of the media industry in Rwanda and have been craving for a chance to make constructive contribution now can do so. [more]

President Yoweri Museveni met European Union ambassadors on Wednesday to discuss issues concerning democracy, corruption and press freedom in Uganda.[more]

The recent decision by the Namibian Police to release only “selective data” on crime is “a clear denial of the people’s right to access information”, the Namibian chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa said this week.[more]

Let me preface this column by stating that I have always had a modicum of respect for Minister Joel Kaapanda. I have written articles commending the diligent manner in which he acquainted himself with his ministerial duties, first at regional government and later at the works ministry.[more]

Dakar – There is something dismally familiar about the tide of news reports concerning Africa’s increased suffering – more poverty, malnutrition, civil strife, and death – in the face of the recent global financial crisis. Almost everywhere, the media translates academic conclusions into graphic illustrations of brutality and despair in places such as Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo.[more]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is collaborating with the media in West Africa to establish minimum standards for media practice in conflict prevention, deepening democracy and good governance, and promoting interaction and cooperation among journalists and media practitioners in the sub-region.[more]

The Nigeria Guild of Editors ended its one-day Standing Committee Meeting in Lagos, yesterday, with an outright rejection of any effort to have a government-regulated Press Council, although it admitted the need for a regulation.[more]

People who really care about the situation of the media industry in Rwanda and have been craving for a chance to make constructive contribution now can do so. The Press Bill, which seeks to put in place a new media-governing law, is currently under debate in parliament.[more]

A Deloitte media and technology expert has warned that good content in newspapers is the only way to keep readers from migrating to the internet.[more]

Government at all levels have been called upon to abolish ministries of information, as they are outdated and have become centres of disinformation, obstruction, suppression and oppression.[more]

The campaign to elect new leadership for the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) is gathering momentum ahead of polling day in three weeks time.[more]

Maputo — The Mozambican government's "Made in Mozambique" campaign took an ambitious step forward on Friday with the announcement that "Made in Mozambique" will soon launch an Internet television channel.[more]

The Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (Copac)’s sub-committee on information and publicity has lodged a complaint with Media, Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu regarding alleged biased state-controlled media coverage of the constitution-making process.[more]

If CBS have got a case to answer then the government should have taken them to court as soon as the riots ended. Instead president Museveni opted for dialogue that initially came as a meeting with the Kabaka of Buganda after the Sep 11th riots.[more]

A little over a year ago, award-winning British reporter Nick Davies turned his investigative skills on his colleagues in the media and produced a book called Flat Earth News. It shook up British journalism.[more]

A team of western journalists has produced a series on life in Liberia, depicting the country as chaotic, corrupt and savage.[more]

A Ghana High Court, sitting in Accra, has dropped a four-year-old defamation suit brought against 'Akosua', a cartoonist with the privately-owned Accra-based Daily Guide newspaper, PANA reported Tuesday.[more]

After criticising the ruling party the daily paper close to the opposition party Rassemblement des Republicains (RDR) has been suspended for three days. The national press council accused the newspaper of incitement to tribalism, to xenophobia and to revolution. Read the full story from "jeune Afrique" in French.[more]

General David Tinyefunza’s missive to General Salim Saleh of January 12 and General Y. K Museveni’s demands for the owners of CBS to apologise for the September 2009 riots, as a precondition to re-open CBS Radio, must be puzzling and disturbing to many. In particular, one wonders why the Army Generals and the Cabinet are at the forefront of the CBS closure/negotiations and not the Statutory Broadcasting Council.[more]

Fifa on Monday issued a press release which seeks to reassure the media that the purpose of accreditation terms is "not, and has never been, to restrict press freedom". [more]

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has asked the Government to allow the opposition access to the public and private media without interference. [more]

"Yes, they are a group of bullies and dictators - that is what I call them. These infringements simply amount to censorship and are meant to bring us back to the dirty tricks of the old political dispensation," one angry journalist told Bizcommunity.com yesterday, Sunday 30 January 2010.[more]

Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Jessie Majome has said the country’s efforts to craft a new constitution are being hampered by negative and partisan media coverage from the state media. Speaking on our Rules for our Rulers constitutional programme Majome said the state media was failing to appreciate that a tripartite government was in place and their coverage was not reflecting this.[more]

Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs Jessie Majome has said the country's efforts to craft a new constitution are being hampered by negative and partisan media coverage from the state media. Speaking on our Rules for our Rulers constitutional programme Majome said the state media was failing to appreciate that a tripartite government was in place and their coverage was not reflecting this.

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Kampala — Buganda's attorney general Apolo Makubuya wants the Uganda Broadcasting Council to accord CBS radio a public hearing that will determine whether its owners should apologise or not. He also dismissed the Government's other conditions for re-opening the radio station.[more]

Controversial Zimbabwean investor, Oscar Kubara has failed to dribble with the National Broadcasting Board (NBB) like he did with the Botswana football authorities.[more]

Maputo, 29 Jan (AIM) - Hopes have been raised that this year the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, will finally pass freedom of information legislation, that will grant citizens access to information held by public bodies.[more]

Calabar — The case of the alleged unconstitutional dissolution of the Cross River State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) held August 13, 2009 is billed for hearing again at the Federal High Court, Calabar on February 3, 2010.[more]

South Africa faces a challenging year as far as media freedom is concerned.[more]

Nairobi — Western Ugandans have a fascinating fable about the cost of unbridled greed: With his usual opportunism, Mr Hyena raided somebody's fireplace and made off with a piece of roasting meat. Unfortunately, in his haste, he also ate a piece of red hot charcoal, and remained dancing in agony, unable to spit out the mouthful for fear of surrendering the meat, nor to swallow it for fear of ingesting the fire.[more]

Task team report finds several irregularities.

The Minister of Communications, Siphiwe Nyanda, is to sack the entire Sentech board - including its chief executive, Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane - on Thursday, according to a reliable source.[more]

Johannesburg — The commitment of e.tv to the public interest is unparalleled and unrivalled. Or, to put it delicately, eNews has taken the journalistic commitment to the public interest and freedom of the media to new heights, or depths, depending on your vantage point, of course.[more]

The Right to Information Coalition and its allies have called on Parliament to review the Right to Information (RTI) Bill, bring it in line with international standards and best practices and pass it into law in the shortest possible time.

The call came at a public march organized by the Coalition, in collaboration with Publish What You Pay-Ghana (PWYP-Ghana) in Accra on Wednesday to increase awareness on the Bill, mobilize support for its passage into law, and ensure its effective implementation.[more]

President Yoweri Museveni wants the Central Broadcasting Services (CBS), the Buganda kingdom owned radio station, to apologise before it is reopened. CBS was shut down by the Broadcasting Council on September 11, shortly after violent riots erupted in parts of Buganda, over sectarianism and promoting hatred.[more]