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MISA’s Annual Report Highlights Freedom of Expression and Digital Rights Issues in Southern Africa
The year 2021 was one of consolidation and the repositioning of our organisation in the aftermath of the several headwinds that we faced.
When we...
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Press Freedom Situation in Africa- April- June 2021
Journalists killed, respectively in DRC, Somalia and Nigeria, Burkina Faso, including a social media activist in Ghana during the period of April-June 2021. This...
Zambia Digital Rights
Zambia: New Cyber Law Impedes Civil Liberties
Zambia is increasingly repressing the exercise of civic rights, a trend that is growing as the country heads to general elections in August 2021....
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Zambia: Senior Government Official Marches Against Attacks on Journalists
In an unprecedented development, a senior Zambian government official marched to the police headquarters in Lusaka demanding that law enforcement agents do more to...
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ATTACKS ON MEDIA RAISE THREAT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST REPORTERS – MISA ZAMBIA
LUSAKA – MISA Zambia is concerned with the growing acts of targeting journalists on the line of duty by public officials all of which...
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Governments Increasingly Penalising Critical Journalism in Africa
The right to freedom of expression and access to information is enshrined in the national constitutions of several African countries who are also signatories...
Zambia Censorship
AFEX Calls on Zambia’s Media Regulator to Reinstate Prime Television
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) together with its member, MiSA Zambia, is dismayed at the decision of the country’s media regulatory body,...
Zambia Attacks
Critical Private TV Station under Attack from State Officials in Zambia
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) firmly condemns the recent attacks by affiliates of Zambia’s ruling, Patriotic Front (PF) party against Prime Television...
Zambia Attacks
AFEX Denounces Killing of Student by Zambian Police
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) condemns the acts of brutality against student demonstrators by Zambian police which has resulted in the killing...
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Registration for Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica18) Opened
Registration for the sixth edition of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2018 (FIFAfrica18) is opened. FIFAfrica18 is a landmark event that brings...
Zambia Free Expression and The Law
AFEX Urges Zambia Government to Adopt Multi-Stakeholder Approach in Formulating Internet Policies
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins journalists, bloggers, and activists in Zambia to call on the government to develop and adopt a...
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Constricting Cyberspace: African Governments Target Social Media Users in New Laws
Increasingly, governments across the African continent are intentionally adopting laws and policies aimed at limiting citizens’ rights online. The end to this phenomenon does...