Let’s protect press freedom: Turkish paper

>To great dismay, Tanzanians were treated to horrifying ‘pictures’ of brutality by their police and some ruling party henchmen (and henchwomen, to be politically correct!)

Lusaka Times
HH on Press Freedom Day
Zambian Watchdog
Country men and women, this year's theme for World Press Freedom day “Media Freedom for a better future: Shaping the Post 2015 Development Agenda” should be properly situated by everyone especially by those in power. It is undeniable that the press ...
Bomani to address media personnel in Arusha tomorrowIPPmedia
Cherish our freedomsBarbados Advocate

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Mahiga keen on press freedom
Daily News
A FORMER Tanzanian permanent representative to United Nations, Dr Augustine Mahiga, has pledged to make amendments to the laws which undermine media freedom in order to promote the fourth estate, should he be declared October presidential ...

Yes, I agree that the very objective of social media, apart from being a source of news, is being a platform for interaction. In the few years of its existence, social media has changed greatly the way people communicate.

Africa's Press Freedom Improving - Kikwete
AllAfrica.com
TANZANIA President Jakaya Kikwete has said the freedom of the Press has slightly improved in Africa although a lot needs to be done by enacting relevant laws. Dr Kikwete said the improvement could be measured by the level of democracy demonstrated by ...

Imprisonment is now recognised as a disproportionate interference in the exercise of freedom of expression, following the Burkina Faso ruling.

IPPmedia
Media and CA: Press freedom goes on trial
IPPmedia
An animated debate could be gleaned at midmorning in the Constituent Assembly rule-making seminar chaired by House of Representative Speaker Pandu Ameir Kificho, as CA members were raising on the floor alterations proposals they have presented to ...
CA forms team on tricky issuesDaily News
CA Albinos Ask for Large Font TextAllAfrica.com

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President Jakaya Kikwete used his speech to dissolve the tenth parliament to highlight some of his administration successes for the past ten years that he has been in power.

>On February 14, 1989, I happened to be on a panel on press freedom for the Columbia Journalism Review when someone in the audience told us of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s religious edict for blasphemy against the British novelist Salman Rushdie. What did we think? We didn’t, as I best recall, disgrace ourselves. We said most of the right things about defending freedom of thought and the imagination.