If the media covered America the way we cover Africa, here's what we would know of the United States over the last decade. That in 2000 there were fiercely disputed elections in which the presidency was seized by the candidate who won fewer votes than his rival. That a year later, one of the country's major cities was rocked by a devastating terror attack, costing thousands of lives. And that in 2005 another key city was submerged in record floods, destroying homes and leaving a thousand dead after the dominant tribe left the minority tribe to their fate. Surely we would speak of America as the dark continent, cursed to face constant suffering.[more]

An independent report on media coverage of the 2009 campaign for Mozambique's presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections, requested by the National Union of Journalists (SNJ) found that the ruling Frelimo Party received the greatest share of the coverage, not only on publicly owned media, such as Mozambican Television (TVM) and Radio Mozambique, but also in the print media, regardless of their ownership and political stance.[more]

The newsheet "Canal de Mocambique" has apologised for publishing a false story on trafficking of children between Mozambique and South Africa.On Monday, the paper claimed that 20 children, aged between 9 and 16, were found inside a truck from Mozambique at the Komatipoort border post in South Africa. The children were supposedly found inside cardboard boxes, covered with blankets.[more]

Minister of Communication and Information, Professor Dora Akunyuli, and Association Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) have disagreed on the modalities of operation in the telecom sector. The minister last week in Abuja bared the minds of the Federal Government and Nigerians concerning the poor quality of telecom services in the country over the 78 million subscriber-base and the huge investment over the years. [more]

Relationships between some Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) members have reached rock bottom. The main characters in the latest saga are SPYL secretary Elijah Ngurare, executive member Clinton Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb – an employee at the ruling party’s headquarters.

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Premium television channels providers are increasing investments, hoping to cash in on new opportunities as Kenya gears up for migration to digital broadcasting.East Africa Capital Partners (EACP), the majority owners of Wananchi Group, have invested Sh1.54 billion in the telecom to expand its satellite and cable pay-TV offerings.[more]

The selection of a head of news at the SABC will go ahead as planned with the interview panel resuming its assessment of four candidates for the position, a senior staff member close to the broadcaster’s board confirmed yesterday. [more]

It is very easy these days for Government Officials to accuse Journalists of being engaged in what they term as irresponsible Journalism. These authorities often blame the journalists of writing without conducting any form of investigation. They often blame the media for writing speculations just to sell their papers. Now Foroyaa is calling on those who levy such allegations against the Media to practice what they preach. We have been trying to investigate many issues of Public Concern, but all too often officials hide behind the claim that they are public servants and could not comment without authorisation from the Head of the Public Service. [more]

You don’t have to be very bright to guess what I am not going to tell you. What you are reading today is a completely different column from what it should have been, because for a political journalist who has been in the ‘mix’ long enough, there is only one issue I should have been writing about today - Wednesday June 23 – to be published Saturday June 26 of course.[more]

Namibian Broadcasting Corporation Board Chairperson, Sven Thieme, says the appointment of the director-general for the national broadcaster has not yet been finalised.[more]