AFRICAAngolan media monopoly threatens election fairness
Before Friday's Angolan elections, campaigners were busy touring the country competing for voter support. The last election in 1992 pushed Angola back into a long and bloody civil war that killed over a million people, with many more displaced. It also ushered in an era of severe repression of dissent within political and media realms. 4 Sep 2008 10:00

AFRICAAbsence of self-regulation undermining Malawi media
[Gregory Gondwe] The absence of self-regulation in the Malawi media is said to be undermining the media industry in the country where editorial freedom is compromised under state interference. 2 Sep 2008 11:02

AFRICAITNewsAfrica appoints new editor
ITNewsAfrica.com has appointed Samuel Mungadze as its new online editor. Mungadze is a qualified journalist with years of experience in the media industry. His working career has been with The Standard Newspaper (Zimbabwe) SABC Africa (SA) and The African Bulletin (Netherlands). 1 Sep 2008 11:24

AFRICANew royalty system with SAMRO
The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) has been fully accredited as a collection society for Needletime Rights royalties in South Africa. 1 Sep 2008 11:02

AFRICAEast Africa: EAC committee sets up media strategy
The National Consultative Committee (NCC) on the fast tracking of the East Africa political federation will soon use a massive media strategy in collection of views about the EAC integration process. 28 Aug 2008 14:46

AFRICAMalawi: Opposition parliamentarians reject information ministry allocation
[Gregory Gondwe] Woes for Malawi's 2008-2009 national budget refuse to die with opposition parliamentarians refusing to allocate resources for the ministry of information and civic education earlier this week. 28 Aug 2008 10:08

AFRICAIFJ calls on Senegal to end intimidation of media
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Senegalese authorities to put an end to the attacks on media and independent journalists and to build a new relationship with journalists. The call comes after a police raid of a print house to prevent distribution of the newspaper L'As and the interrogation of the paper's publisher. 25 Aug 2008 15:48

AFRICANAMISA appeals for TVM, MBC budget allocation
The National Media Institute of Southern Africa (NAMISA) has appealed to opposition legislators in the country to approve budgetary allocations for the country's two public broadcasters, Television Malawi (TVM) and Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). 25 Aug 2008 11:17

AFRICABNL journalists take control of Malawi's MISA
[Gregory Gondwe] Journalists from Malawi's Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), publishers of The Daily Times, Malawi News and Sunday Times, on Saturday took Control of Malawi's Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Chapter when they swept all influential positions in the polls held in Blantyre during the body's Annual General Meeting (AGM). 25 Aug 2008 09:23

AFRICASAMRO contributes to legal form process
The Southern African Music Rights Organisation has been instrumental in bringing clarity to a section of the proposed Companies Bill, which was the subject of public hearings in parliament last week. 22 Aug 2008 15:12

AFRICABotswana: Proposed law would give government power to interfere with media
Botswana Member of Parliament for Mogoditshane, Patrick Masimolole has called upon the Minister of Communications, Science and Technology to drop the Media Practitioners Bill arguing that the proposed law grants too much power to the ministry in interfering with the operations of the media. 22 Aug 2008 09:29

AFRICAMedia landscape still uncertain as Ethiopia releases jailed journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expressed concern yesterday, 20 August 2008, about the media environment in Ethiopia even though all journalists jailed in relation to their work since the November 2005 crackdown, have been released. 21 Aug 2008 14:36

AFRICAMedia neutrality - or the very real lack of it - in Africa - Janine Lazarus Media Consultancy
[Janine Lazarus] In every country in the world, the media writes for a paying audience. If newspapers are to sell successfully, the issues of their particular audience need to resonate with what the media reflects. 25 Jul 2008 14:31