AFRICAPastor threatens to sue Ugandan tabloid for defamation
The Red Pepper, a Ugandan tabloid newspaper has been warned against publishing defamatory stories about Pastor Isaac Kyobe Kiwewesi of the Kansanga Miracle Centre in Kampala. 3 Oct 2008 11:33
AFRICAZimbabwe: Cash crisis ruins newspaper sales
[Dumisani Ndlela] The Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) group has revealed that its newspaper titles have suffered significant sales losses due to an arduous cash crisis, devastating the country's newspaper publishing industry. 22 Sep 2008 10:19
AFRICAMalawi's third daily newspaper on the cards
[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi will, from this month have a third daily newspaper after President Bingu wa Mutharika's Guardian Publications Limited (GPL) announced its plans to turn tri-weekly, The Guardian into a daily. 12 Sep 2008 10:20
AFRICAJournalists important to Africa's digital revolution
[Proffesor Ndawonde] Grahamstown: Journalists should be at the frontline in advancing the digital revolution in Africa, Deputy Minister of Communications, Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie said on Monday, 8 September 2008. 9 Sep 2008 13:59
AFRICA‘Good old' Grahamstown welcomes Highway Africa 2008
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] It's Highway Africa time again and the little, old, and serene town of Grahamstown, 131km from Port-Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, has been ‘invaded' by more than 700 media practitioners from more than 40 African countries and other parts of the world, meeting here to discuss the burning issue of citizen journalism in today's fast-changing media environment. The conference opened today, Monday, 8 September 2008, at Rhodes University and will end on Wednesday. 8 Sep 2008 11:02
AFRICARugoho-Chin'ono, CNN Multichoice African Journalist 2008
Hopewell Rugoh-Chin'ono, from Zimbabwe, has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2008 Awards ceremony. 21 Jul 2008 10:12
AFRICAZimbabwe: Newspapers grab new pricing opportunity to prevent collapse
[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's media houses have seized on a new dispensation allowing them to charge cover prices without engaging price control agents by imposing weekly increases on newspaper prices. 11 Jul 2008 15:30
AFRICAWAN tells Mugabe: "Drop punitive tax"
The World Association of Newspapers had told Mugabe to drop a "luxury" tax clearly aimed at stifling news. 8 Jul 2008 08:23
AFRICADiageo Africa Business Reporting Awards winners
LONDON: The winners of the 2008 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards were announced last night, Thursday, 3 July 2008, at a gala ceremony in London. Now in its fifth year, the awards honour business journalism focusing on Africa, thus attracting contestants from around the globe. 4 Jul 2008 10:53
AFRICATsvangirai disowns article published in UK paper
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had disowned an article published under his name in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, 25 June 2008, in which he was said to have called for “words of indignation by world leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force”. 27 Jun 2008 13:43
AFRICASomali journalists trained to survive captivity
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) and its Somalia partner, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), has provided safety training to 48 Somali journalists and other media staff in Djibouti. 27 Jun 2008 12:12
AFRICAZim vendor arrested for listening to ‘wrong' station
A street vendor has been arrested and faces a jail term of as much as six months for listening to critical radio program. In addition, his newspaper copies were seized. 24 Jun 2008 09:07
AFRICAMoroccan daily ordered to stop publishing
On 19 June 2008, a Rabat court ordered the Moroccan Arabic-language daily Al Jarida Al Oula to stop publishing hitherto unpublished testimony about repression under the late King Hassan II, which senior officials gave to an official truth commission called the Equity and Reconciliation Panel (IER). 23 Jun 2008 15:33
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