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Africa continues to be a violent continent for journalists
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COVID-19 has been identified as a burning factor fuelling the use of force to prevent journalists from working in Africa. This was said by Reporters without Borders in its 2021 World Press Freedom Index, indicating that although there was less deterioration in Africa’s “Abuses” score, it continues to be the most violent continent for journalists.
The 2021 Index shows that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73% of the 180 countries ranked by the organisation. The data reflects a dramatic deterioration in people’s access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage, further showing that journalists are finding it increasingly hard to investigate and report sensitive stories, especially in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Last year, Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) launched a recruitment drive and registration of new party members. With the party Patron Former President Ian Khama at the forefront, the party traversed the length and breadth of the country wooing and receiving new members to its fold. The intensive recruitment beared fruit as a week hardly went by without the party receiving new members at the expense of ruling Botswana Democratic Party.
And when speaking at one of the events to welcome former member of parliament for Palapye, Moiseraela Master Goya who resigned from BDP together with thousands of other members, a couple of months back, BPF Patron and his entourage vowed to dismantle the ruling party, and removing the current Government and it’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi. “I made a mistake by appointing Masisi to be your President, for that I apologise, but we are now rectifying that mistake, together with other opposition parties the Umbrella for Democratic Change (U