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New telecommunications operator licensed in Ethiopia
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A woman walks in front of an office of Ethio telecom, till now Ethiopia’s sole telecommunications provider, in Addis Ababa, 26 April 2021, EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images A private telecommunications operator has been licensed in Ethiopia, but the real test is in how it will operate in the country s heavily controlled media environment.
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 24 May 2021.
By Juliet Nanfuka
Ethiopia, one of the world’s last closed telecommunications markets, has been liberalised. On May 22, 2021, the Ethiopian government announced that a new telecommunications license had been awarded to the Global Partnership for Ethiopia – a consortium comprising Kenya’s Safaricom PLC, Vodacom Group, Vodafone Group, the United Kingdom’s development finance institution CDC Group plc, the Japanese-owned Sumitomo Corporation,
Zimbabwean journalist arrested for helping SA-based colleagues denied bail
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Durban - Zimbabwean journalist Jeffrey Moyo, a freelancer for the New York Times has been denied bail by a Bulawayo court. He was arrested for allegedly misrepresenting the media accreditation status of his two South-African based colleagues.
Moyo, who is based in Harare but was moved to Bulawayo for the bail hearing, was arrested last Wednesday after allegedly obtaining forged accreditation for colleagues, Joao Silva and Christina Goldbaum.
While Silva and Goldbaum were deported back to South Africa, Moyo was charged and detained.
On Monday, he appeared in court and was denied bail, his lawyer, David Coltart told IOL.