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Covid-19 and the escalating assault on press freedom across Southern Africa By Tatenda Mazarura• 25 May 2021 With the world’s attention focused on combating Covid-19 governments in Southern Africa have taken advantage of the health crisis to escalate censorship, overlook or allow ill treatment of journalists and impose restrictions to silence free speech. (Photo: medpagetoday.com/Wikipedia) With the world’s attention focused on combating Covid-19 governments in southern Africa have take...

Revised Windhoek Declaration Promotes Journalists Safety, Media’s Economic Viability And Internet Transparency  2 hours ago share Carol Guensburg, Ndimyake Mwakalyelye Gwen Lister co-chaired a 1991 journalism seminar in Windhoek, Namibia, whose participants produced an influential text calling for a free, independent and pluralistic press. The Windhoek Declaration led to World Press Freedom Day. Thirty years ago, dozens of African journalists gathered at a conference in the then-new nation ...

Angolan Editor, Francisco Rasgado facing prison, $1.5 million damages in criminal defamation case By Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ) LISTEN 7 HOURS AGO New York, April 30, 2021 – Angolan authorities should drop the criminal defamation and insult charges against editor Francisco Rasgado and reform the countrys laws to decriminalize journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On April 23, police officers arrested Rasgado, the founder and director of the privately-owned...