A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in October 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in September 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in August2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in July 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in June 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in April 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in April 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in March 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in February 2008.

Recommendations from the joint fact-finding mission on Kenya's media coverage of its post-election crisis.

Joint fact-finding mission report on Kenya's media coverage of the post-election violence.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in January 2008.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in December 2007.

A round up of the news from the Africa region in November 2007.

A round up of the news from the Africa region in October 2007.

Action plan for freedom of speech in Niger.

A round up of the news from the Africa region in September 2007.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in August 2007.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in July 2007.

Report on the electoral and media laws of Angola all of which impose illegitimate restrictions on free speech and are easily abused to silence political opponents.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in June 2007.

Declaration of Table Mountain on abolishing “Insult Laws” in Africa and setting free press higher on the agenda.

Annex to the Declaration of Table Mountain on Abolishing “Insult Laws” in Africa and Setting Free Press Higher on the Agenda.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in May 2007.

A comprehensive thematic report on human rights violations in Zimbabwe between 1996 and 2006. The report was collectively produced by a coalition of human rights organisations.

A round up of the latest news in the Africa region in April 2007.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in March 2007.

Election media advisory adopted at a meeting of media owners, managers, leaders and advocates, as well as regulators hosted by Channels Television, and Media Rights Agenda (MRA).

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding freedom of expression in Sudan. Report submitted in advance of the 4th periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

A round up of the latest news from across the Africa region in February 2007.

Statement calling for a review of the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications Draft Freedom of Information policy.

Background paper on freedom of expression and the Nigerian elections of 2007.

A round up of the latest news from the Africa region in January 2007.

Statement calling for an immediate enactment of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill ahead of the national elections scheduled for April 2007.

Joint ARTICLE 19 and AMDH action plan for the consolidation of freedom of speech in Mauritania

ARTICLE 19 has issued a statement to the African Commission’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression to investigate human rights violations in the Horn of Africa country of Eritrea.

Produced by the southern roundtable on freedom of expression, this statement calls for and makes a commitment to assisting and facilitating Southern Sudanese media institutions to develop a self-regulatory code of ethics and make recommendations on the establishment of an independent self-regulatory body to be put in place as soon as is practically possible.

This statement was developed at a two day colloquium facilitated by the ARTICLE 19 Africa Programme as part of an ongoing programme to encourage the adoption of self-regulating codes of conduct and organisation of colloquia regarding media coverage of elections in Africa.

An evaluation of the decisive role that the Sudanese media will play in informing the public about the peace agreement, and the implications of such a role.

An evaluation of the decisive role that the Sudanese media will play in informing the public about the peace agreement, and the implications of such a role (in Arabic).

The present Sudanese legal regime includes legislation and practices governing the media that run counter to democratic values and fundamental freedoms. This report provides the argument for urgent institutional, legal and policy reform.

The existing media and media community in Sudan will be crucial for communicating the peace accords to the population in a credible an inclusive way.

The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) may accurately be described as the leading weapon of the government and the ruling ZANU PF party in their ongoing campaign to stifle independent media reporting in Zimbabwe. This report focuses on the first two years of AIPPA, describing the legislation, critiquing it and providing an overview of the way in which it has been implemented and the impact it has had on the free flow of information and ideas in Zimbabwe.

Report on the impact of informal information and communication networks on security in Tanzanian refugee camps. The report focuses on the necessity of freedom of information for security and development in protracted refugee situations.

Report on new directions in policy, regulations and frameworks concerning broadcasting in Africa.

Declaration outlining the basic principles defined by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights with regard to freedom of expression in Africa

Report on the legal framework for freedom of expression in Ethiopia, intended to inform debate about the adoption of a new press law.

Report discussing the relevance of theatre as a means through which women in Africa may achieve freedom of expression. This publication deals specifically with Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Resolution of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, deciding to develop a Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression.

Report on freedom expression and freedom of association in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A report on the outcome of a study undertaken by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and ARTICLE 19, on the legal and institutional framework for the regulation of the electronic media and telecommunications in Nigeria.

Submission to the Government of Ethiopia regarding observations on the protection and promotion of freedom of expression in the country.

Joint report which makes a number of recommendations for reform in the area of freedom of expression which, if implemented, might allow the creation of a climate in which freedom of expression is respected and protected and where the role of the media is tolerated and encouraged in a pluralist system in DRC.

Report arguing that the 'right to truth' concerning past human rights violations follows from a general right to access information. The report also contains case studies from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

This study is intended to examine developments in the sub-Saharan region in the light of A19's principles on Freedom of Information legislation and to contribute to the process of change and reform already underway.

This study is intended to examine developments in the sub-Saharan region in the light of ARTICLE 19's Principles on Freedom of Information Legislation and to contribute to the process of change and reform already underway.

A report by ARTICLE 19 and the Forum of Conscience developed as a potential useful resource into the ongoing political emergency in Sierra Leone.

A Question of Balance looks at trends in media coverage of the referendum and makes a number of recommendations for changes urgently needed to ensure that the public is provided with fair and impartial coverage during forthcoming parliamentary elections.

A report that describes the union-level Constitutional and legal provisions which affect the media either on Tanzania mainland only or on both Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar

Report providing an in-depth analysis of Zanzibar's structural democratic deficitwith regard to the fundamental rights of freedom of expression, association and assembly.

The final report of the 1999 ARTICLE 19 Malawi election media monitoring project.

Paper discussing legal developments in southern Africa which gave new impetus to the need to reform outdated laws relating to obscenity.

Report on the anniversary of the death of Norbert Zongo, a pioneering journalist and fearless critic of the government of Burkina Faso. He was brutally killed on 13 December 1998, along with three companions.

Report detailing the development of the freedom of expression situation in Cameroon since 1995.

Report outlining the minimum steps necessary to provide the foundations for a democratic transition to democracy as well as the specific measures necessary to safeguard freedom of expression as part of that transition.

Report on the Gambian government's continuing harassment of the independent media, in particular the case of the radio station Citizen FM.

Report on attempts to licence the work of journalists in Commonwealth African countries such as Uganda and Zambia.

This report looks at attempts to control and censor the Internet and the challenges posed to the growth of the Internet as a tool for free expression in Africa.

Report aiming to provide guidance on how governments should interpret and apply the free expression provisions in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The report looks at case studies from South Africa, Uganda and Sierra Leone.

As the legal case which has silenced Citizen FM radio enters its seventeenth month, ARTICLE 19 reports on the Gambian government's continuing harassment of the independent media. The report also makes public concerns, first communicated in May 1999 to the Gambian government, that its draft National Communication and Information Policy (NACIP) is in danger of failing to meet The Gambia's international human rights obligations.

Report on violence in the Rift Valley Province and how, to a significant extent, violence has been fuelled by people’s lack of access to independent and impartial information through the media.

Report outlining the need for reforms in Malawi due to a lack of accessible communications services with the resulting effects on basic human rights and freedom of expression.

Report highlighting freedom of expression concerns in the Gambia including the harassment of journalists and political activists.

Report casting a critical spotlight on the workings of Cameroon's democratic process, and its media, concluding that fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly, vital to the political process, are routinely violated despite guarantees under the Constitution and international law.

A report that examines the informal repression of several African countries, drawing on a similar phenomenon that occured in Latin America.

Joint report providing an agenda for reform for freedom of expression in Nigeria.

Examines and analyses the Rwandan media, often blamed as a major cause of the genocide, which began on 6 April 1994 and claimed the lives of approx. 500,000 people within three months.

Report providing an analysis of the freedom of expression situation in Northern Cameroon, three years after the country's return to multi-party democracy.

Report on the trial of human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and other members of the Ogoni community in Nigeria, accused of the murder of four Ogoni traditional chiefs during a riot in May 1994.

Report documenting the violations of freedom of expression by Kenyan authorities including suppression of information, harassment, detention, false charges, torture and ill-treatment of government critics by the Kenyan government.

Report on the link between famine and censorship. The report takes the case studies of China and Ethiopia to argue that famines can be prevented if censorship is not prevalent.

Assessment and outline of a strategy for media support - media in Sudan at a crossroads; a Sudan consortium project publication