Tag: media
Uganda cracks down on media ahead of elections in 2021, watchdog...
Uganda’s security forces are cracking down on authors and journalists who challenge the 34-year-old rule of President Yoweri Museveni ahead of elections next year,...
Turkish news agency personnel released in Egypt
Egypt’s public prosecutor’s office ordered the release of five people detained following a raid on Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency office in Cairo and...
Social media recruitment scams not confined to the SANDF
South Africa's high unemployment rate provides fertile ground for scams with the SA Police Service (SAPS) the latest target.
The SA National Defence Force (SANDF)...
Social media restricted in Sudan
Sudanese authorities are blocking access to popular social media platforms used to organise and broadcast nationwide anti-government protests triggered by an economic crisis, internet...
Fraudsters using social media for SANDF recruitment scam
The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) warns there is a military skills development (MSD) programme recruitment scam using various social media platforms...
US leans on Zimbabwe over media, security laws
The United States is pressing Zimbabwe to change laws restricting media freedom and anti-government protests, top US diplomat for Africa told Reuters...
Egypt targeting social media and fake news
The Egyptian parliament passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalise journalists publishing fake news.
Under...
Teargas used on Uganda social media protesters
Police in Uganda fired teargas to disperse a small crowd of protesters demonstrating against new taxes including a levy on access to...
Uganda social media tax criticised
Uganda imposed a levy on social media access it says will fund public services but has been widely resisted as oppressive and...
Media, rights activists threatened in South Sudan – UN
Journalists and rights activists in South Sudan have been killed or arrested and newspapers closed, often by government, hampering coverage of the...
Kenya media, opposition crackdown criticised
A top Kenyan newspaper published a fake death notice of a prominent opposition financier, a bizarre error rights groups interpreted as another...
Sudan detains media men
Sudanese authorities detained a Reuters stringer and an AFP reporter covering protests in Khartoum, the external information council, which deals with foreign...
South Sudan concerned about media censorship
South Sudan's media regulator suspended all press associations in the country while they register for licences to operate, journalists said, a move...
Social media clampdown coming in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe government will crack down on social media users it accused of spreading false rumours of shortages and causing panic buying...
ISS: Is the media giving a voice to terrorists?
It has become an almost weekly ritual. A car driving through a crowd, a knife attack, a bombing and a perpetrator with...
Migrants tell of horrors or voyage in Italian media campaign
Italy launched an internet, TV and radio campaign on Thursday to discourage Africans from setting out on the often deadly voyage to...
Egypt’s imprisonment of journalists at all-time high: CPJ
Egypt is holding the highest number of journalists behind bars since record keeping began, using the pretext of national security to crack...
Three journalists and a union leader released in Niger
Authorities in Niger released on Thursday three journalists from a private radio station one day after they were detained with a union...
The SANDF and the media
People serving in the media relations and communications sections of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) would do well to take...
The role of mass media in armed conflict: A Libyan case...
"From the cowardice which shrinks from new truth, from the laxness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all...
Journos talk IBSA
Editors from India, Brazil and South Africa have agreed to increase the flow of information between governments and the media in order...
Editors turn on government over hacking probe
Two of the most influential media figures in Britain accused the government of using a scandal over journalists hacking phones as an...
Cyber attack on Gannett targets US soldiers
Hackers broke into a Gannett Co database containing personal information about subscribers to publications read by US government officials, military leaders and...
Media safeguard inserted in Protection from Harassment Bill
Members of Parliament have agreed to amend the final draft of a bill to prevent stalking by adding a clause that will...
SA police arrest man over World Cup death threat
South Africa's police on Thursday arrested one of two men who threatened in a television interview to rob and kill fans at...
