“A Shadow Over Democracy” reports on the July 13 to 15, 2016 press freedom mission to Zambia carried out by IPI and the African Media Initiative (AMI) in response to government pressure on opposition newspaper The Post ahead of Zambia’s August 2016 presidential election. The report’s key finding is that the ongoing seizure of the […]

The members of the International Press Institute (IPI), meeting at their 66th Annual General Assembly during the IPI World Congress on May 20, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, adopted by unanimous vote a resolution calling on Zambia to end its harassment and persecution targeting independent media, particularly the newspaper The Post and its successor, The Mast. […]

This report follows a visit to Zambia by a delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI) from 11-17 October 2010 to meet with journalists, media organizations and with government. The major focus of discussions was media regulation. With general elections scheduled for 2011, issues of media freedom become even more pressing in this southern African […]

Meeting at their Annual General Assembly on 13 September 2010 in Vienna, Austria, the IPI members unanimously adopted a resolution appealing to the Zambian government to relinquish its control of the media in that country. Despite the Zambian government‘s proclaimed commitment to press freedom, developments in the country indicate that the authorities are reluctant to […]