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Ugandan Media Urged to Focus on Issues During Election Campaign
The chairman of the Independent Media Council of Uganda (IMCU) and former Ugandan Prime Minister Kintu Musoke has urged the media to endeavor to focus on issues and not on petty events while covering the election campaigns that kicked off recently.
Somali Rebels Silence Radio Stations in Baidoa
The Somali Islamist rebel group Al-Shabab has shut down two independent radio stations in the city of Baidoa, about 247 kilometers north-west of the capital Mogadishu. In a communiqué the Al-Shabab administration in Baidoa ordered the closure of the...
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government Denies Recruiting Soldiers Along Border With Kenya
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government(TFG) has denied reports saying that it has recruited young men from ethnic Somali Kenyans as soldiers in areas along the border between Kenya and Somalia . Information Minister, Sheik Dahir Mahmoud Guelleh told...
Pressure Increases On Belarusian Press
Independent journalists could soon find their work in Belarus even more difficult as a result of a new media law that is taking shape. The legislation seeks to impose curbs on the Internet — the last outpost of uncensored information and free exchange...
Uzbekistan: International Groups Blast Tashkent’s ‘Media Freedom Conference’
In April, the European Union agreed to hold a conference on media freedom in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. The idea was that major international rights groups — including Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, the International Crisis Group,...
Iraq: Foreign Fighters Continue To Wreak Havoc
A Sunni Arab tribal leader in restive Diyala Governorate announced this week that tribal fighters obtained Al-Qaeda records documenting the names of 6,000 suicide bombers who have carried out attacks in Iraq since the fall of the Hussein regime....
