The Swazi Royal family has been involved in a sex scandal, but despite making headlines internationally, the story has been largely ignored in the Kingodom. For more click here

Since the beginning of Somalia’s Islamist extremist insurgency, the Al-Shabaab militia has targeted journalists and others that it considers opposed to its goals.
Al-Shabaab is now reaching beyond Somalia’s borders, as the group claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks Sunday evening that rocked Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and left an estimated 74 people dead, including radio presenter [...]

KENYAN BROADCASTERS will have to apply for new licenses in the next three months and subscribe to a new programming code as the government began implementing the Kenya Communications Amendment Act of 2009..
According to the Act the new licenses to be granted by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) contain a programming [...]

The Media Institute of Southern Africa said the 2010 World Press Freedom Day will be marked on Monday at a time when media and freedom of expression has taken a serious downturn in Southern Africa.
” We mark May 3 under the shadow of a deterioration of media freedoms throughout the region notably in Swaziland, Zambia [...]

A MILITIA group in Somali has ordered all radio stations to shut down all Voice of America and British Broadcasting Corporation contracts accusing them of spreading propaganda, reports www.journalism.co.za.
Al-Shabab accused BBC separately of confusing Muslims with foreign ideals and insulting Islamic insurgents. BBC and VOA were jointly accused of broadcasting propaganda on behalf of the [...]

Ethiopia is preparing to jam the Amharic-language broadcasts of the U.S. government-funded Voice of America (VOA), Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared Thursday in a press briefing with international media correspondents based in the capital, Addis Ababa, reports the Committee for the Protection of Journalists.
The prime minister accused VOA’s Amharic service of [...]

THE Voice of America (VOA) maintains that its transmissions to Ethiopia, are being electronic jammed.
The Ethiopian government has however denied responsibility.
VOA cited international shortwave radio monitors and complaints from listeners in the country since February 22 about static disrupting the US government-funded station’s daily, hour-long shortwave broadcast from Washington in Amharic, [...]

TWO senior Standard Media group editors have quit, citing enormous pressure “to perform near miracles to increase circulation”, reports www.journalism.co.ca.
The resignations come only days after  the controversial and much-publicized departure of KTN presenter Esther Arunga, who was associated with a religious cult.
They quit at a time when the media group has finalized [...]

A ruling last week in a Ugandan landmark case of two journalists seeking to compel their government’s disclosure of multinationals oil deals highlighted the challenges to public transparency just before media leaders, press freedom advocates, officials, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gather in Ghana this week at the African Regional Conference on the Right [...]

The ANC wants e.tv to help police arrest the criminals who threatened to rob World Cup tourists during interviews broadcast by the station recently.
WWW.iol.co.za reported yesterday that the ANC also called on e.tv to do the “honourable” thing and withdraw its broadcast featuring the interviews with self-confessed criminals.
“These criminals are not [...]