Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Addis Ababa, 3 October, 2015(WIC) - Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority said it planned to offer Private Television Broadcasting license for efficient and qualified state based and private media companies in the second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II) period. Legal and advertisement director of the authority Gizaw Tesfaye said the authority targeted to provide television licenses […]

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Photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org Today: Activists from the Eritrean community in Israel held a press conference in Tel Aviv to expose journalists to the difficult situation in Eritrea and to protest the deportation of 15 Eritrean men from Israel under the guise of ‘voluntary return’, July 28, 2013. PRESS RELEASE Reporters Without Borders (RSF) wrote yesterday to […]

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From Kenya’s Daily Nation Photo: Godfrey Another provision seen as a hindrance to media freedom is the requirement for approval by the speaker or chairman of a committee before proceedings are broadcast (file photo). By John NjagiA Bill that seeks to curtail the media from reporting Parliamentary proceedings got support from most MPs on Wednesday. Among […]

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From the New Zealand Herald JUBA, South Sudan (AP) ” Media organizations in Sudan imposed a 24-hour news blackout on Friday to demand a full investigation into the killing of a newspaper reporter and assurances of safety for journalists working in the war-torn nation, officials from media associations said. Peter Julius Moi Moi is the […]

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Juba (dpa) – A South Sudanese journalist has been shot dead, the manager of his newspaper said Thursday, as concern grows over the security of journalists in the war-torn country. Moi Peter Julius was shot in the chest Wednesday evening near a UN building in the capital, Juba. “Money and Julius’ belongings were not removed,” […]

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By JOSEPH RWAGATARE Another one who has never set foot here, or if he has, his head was in another place, writes that Rwanda is ruled by monsters and blood-thirsty individuals and cannot understand why a British court let one of them free. For him and others like him, Rwanda is a country where people […]

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Propaganda or proper journalism? China’s media expansion in Africa Posted on August 18, 2015 by AfricanArgumentsEditor Chinese media in Africa tends to take a different approach to other news organisations. This could be because of censorship, or it could be because Chinese media follow a different philosophy of journalism. From huge infrastructure projects to ubiquitous […]

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From The Guardian A senior CNN executive has flown to Nairobi to apologise for coverage calling the country a “hotbed of terror” ahead of Barack Obama’s visit in July. Many Kenyans were outraged by the report, which suggested Obama was likely to be attacked during his historic visit to the land of his father’s birth. […]

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By Lorraine Nkengurutse Posted on May 27, 2015 by AfricanArgumentsEditor Burundi’s media has been silenced. People no longer walk or sit with have their phone glued to their ear – there is hardly anything left to listen to. A day after the failed coup attempt of 13th May, three influential radio stations and one widely watched private television channel […]

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