Luanda — The Angolan ambassador, Luís Neto Kiambata, said Wednesday in Luanda it is "essential" and "indispensable" for the Angola Press Agency (Angop) management to pay more attention to the training of its personnel and keep pace with world technological evolution.[more]

Opinion- Sometimes when we remain inside the box, any small hole in that box becomes the only windowpane that helps to shape the social reality that we perceive to exist outside the box.[more]

At the end of a recent four-day conference on Communication Education and Practice in Africa in Accra-Ghana, Daily Champion reports that Nigeria is likely to drive the African Council on Communication Education (ACCE)'s desire for observer status at the African Union (AU).[more]

Governments and development agencies have devoted many years and hundreds of millions of dollars developing democratic governance in countries around the world.[more]

Tanzanians have made significant progress since independence, but the struggle, as they say, continues, for ours is still counted among the world's ten poorest countries.[more]

Windhoek — A joint study by The Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa)'s Namibian Chapter, Misa Namibia, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Media Tenor South Africa on the media coverage of the 2004 Namibian Presidential and National Assembly Elections found that elections did not appear on the radar until three weeks before polling day.[more]

Reporters Without Borders today condemned mistreatment by Zimbabwean intelligence agents of two journalists working for Arab satellite TV station al-Jazeera.[more]

Welcome to The Gambia, the land of "His Excellency President Professor Alhaji Dr AJJ Jammeh", a sign at airport tells visitors to the West African nation.[more]

Press Release: Reporters Without Borders condemns the latest disturbing escalation in the Guinean military’s clampdown, consisting of denying entry to French TV crews and reporters on their arrival at Conakry international airport.[more]

The problem of stereotypes in the media is a fundamental one, because it is largely a cultural matter. We all find ourselves belonging to a culture or another, most often by chance, not by choice.[more]

Sometimes you go to a meeting and someone produces a moment of elegance, that is, a moment that neatly sums up an area of experience.[more]

User-generated comments, and text messages in particular, are causing umbrage in Namibian government circles. Their unhappiness highlights the historic shift of media away from unidirectional, univocal information.[more]

Andrew Puddephatt’s Exploring the Role of Civil Society in the Formulation and Adoption of Access to Information Laws defines the main contours of Access to Information (ATI) movements in 5 countries (Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa and the United Kingdom).[more]

Article 19 welcomes the Resolution on the Right to Freedom of Expression

adopted by consensus today at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC).[more]

Harare – President Robert Mugabe’s decision to pack boards of state media companies with trusted loyalists ensures he has enough manpower to undercut whatever reforms his unity government with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is looking to implement in the media sector, analysts told ZimOnline on Tuesday.[more]

If local journalists reported more of the news to Western audiences, their sources and the story’s context would be different...[more]

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins today its affiliate the Syndicat national de la presse marocaine (SNPM) in condemning the Moroccan government's campaign to muzzle critical journalists.[more]

Press freedom monitoring officers from 11 East African countries have raised the red flag about the media crackdown currently underway in Uganda.[more]

So what would you do if you had a big bunch of money (which I do not, I hasten to add) and you were interested in funding media development? How would you invest those funds? What principles would guide that investment? What results would you expect?[more]

The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) is mulling over a new law that could deprive people of their freedoms including freedom of expression and association.[more]

Gone are the days when news stories had to be vetted by colonial-era authorities. But, as delegates have said at the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Conference on Censorship, Media and Freedom of Expression in Southern Africa, today anyone can write anything they wish, but the article may the last for the writer and his or her media house.[more]

The appointments of individuals to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ), Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) and Zimbabwe Newspapers Group, New Ziana, and Transmedia by the Minister of Media, Information and Publicity, Honourable Webster Shamu gives the immediate impression of a lack of transparency and accountability to the Zimbabwean public.[more]

An initial look at the field indicates that there is a broad consensus between researchers, UK government and the relevant parts of the UN in three main areas[more]

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned firmly today, the violence and death threats by the military junta against journalists in Guinea.[more]

Mugabe stuck to his well known script, Amanpour and CNN fumbled all over. Thus after the highly expected interview of Mugabe by senior CNN Journalist, Christiane Amanpour, on Thursday 24 September, it came out, in my view, to a victory for Mugabe, if we take it as a contest. Amanpour failed to rise above the familiar frames of the western media’s analysis of Zimbabwe, dictatorship, hunger, land, and white farmers.[more]

On 21 September 2009, press freedom in Swaziland came under renewed threat with a Senator calling for what he termed a "stringent" law that would "deal" with the media in the country.[more]

“We’ve been funding this radio station for four years now. Both your own evaluations and our own assessment make us conclude that it’s achieved far more than we could possibly have hoped. For the first time, people really feel that their elected leaders are answerable to their citizens in this region.[more]