ZANU PF has moved with speed to bar journalists from the independent media from covering their congress, which is fast degenerating into a fiasco following an open rebellion against Robert Mugabe.[more]

Every citizen now has the right to access any information "held by another person" if he requires it to protect any right or fundamental freedom.[more]

Newspaper proprietor Trevor Ncube will launch his new Zimbabwean daily newspaper, NewsDay, on the Web six months before the print edition hits the streets.

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Journalists in Sierra Leone can still be arrested and jailed for writing material considered "libel" regardless if what they published is true or not.[more]

Dumisani Sibanda, the news editor of the state owned Sunday News newspaper, is the new president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ). Foster Dongozi the Secretary General who was re-elected unopposed, and who is an independent journalist, told Newsreel the Friday congress in Bulawayo went ahead without incident despite reports suggesting otherwise. It was predicted the congress would be bitterly contested following allegations that the outgoing executive was trying to cherry pick its successors.[more]

Two radio talk show hosts and moderators have dragged the chairman of broadcasting council and the Attorney General to court for having suspended them from broadcasting [more]

Zimbabwe’s three governing parties are close to reaching an agreement on a range of thorny disputes threatening their power sharing agreement, insiders revealed at the weekend. Sources close to the talks said negotiators from Zanu PF and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations who have been meeting in secrecy since November 23 had agreed on a raft of media reforms.[more]

The Ethiopian government has re-opened the trial of four major newspaper publishers in connection with the 2005 post-election violence in the East African nation.[more]

Kampala — A new report released yesterday says Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) does not meet the standards of a true public broadcaster. The report, a result of research started in 2008, attempts to correct the misconception about public broadcasting in Uganda, revealing that while many may regard UBC as the country's sole public broadcaster, in reality, the media entity is simply a state broadcaster.[more]

The Nigerian Press and Practice of Journalism Council Bill 2009 is too fundamentally flawed and cannot be rescued even with the most diligent effort and best will in the world. The problems are too many and the errors are too far reaching to be remedied.[more]