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 Post newspaper’s assistant news editor George Chellah was threatened by a group of political party supporters while attending a United Party for National Development (UPND) press conference on Wednesday, 24 November in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, he told IPI by phone today. According to Chellah, he was personally invited to the UPND press conference […]

A year after the massacre of 57 people, among them 32 journalists, in the Phillipines province of Maguindanao, justice has yet to be fully served. The killings are alleged to have constituted part of a suspected plot orchestrated by the powerful Ampatuan clan to prevent a rival’s attempt to gain political power. The clan had […]