The International Press Institute (IPI) today released its report on the state of media freedom and media regulation in Zambia. Recently, authorities in the southern African country have called for the media to be regulated by statute, despite the fact that a voluntary regulatory body was established earlier this year. The Zambia Media Council (ZAMEC), […]

A year after President Michael Sata was elected in Zambia on promises to improve media freedom, his Patriotic Front party is patting itself on the back while some media workers remain sceptical about just how far the country has come. “My government’s agenda on the media is to ensure that it continuously challenges government to […]

As I kiss my baby before he falls asleep every night, my thoughts always return to Abdelrahman. My colleague has a boy the same age as mine, and a girl of two years old. But he hasn’t kissed them goodnight for two weeks now. Abdelrahman was arrested on October 30 by the security services in […]

The International Press Institute has condemned the arrest and detainment of two Russia Today (RT) reporters in the United States. US nationals Kaelyn Forde and Jon Conway were detained on 20 November as they covered an annual demonstration in front of Fort Benning Army Base in Columbus, Georgia. Forde and Conway were charged with unlawful […]