| | | Today's headlines | Zimbabwe journalists want better pay
New pay-TV service promises high quality, lower cost
Liberian government urged to improve relations with media
Cops ban media freedom marches in Zimbabwe
Journalist beaten into coma
Roam freely with new global SIM
Al-Jazeera journalist sentenced to prison for exposing torture
Press freedom under threat in North Africa and Middle East
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Media | | WEST AFRICA Liberian government urged to improve relations with media
The only Liberian member of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange has challenged that country’s government to stand up for its belief in freedom of expression.
NIGERIA Journalist beaten into coma
Dare Folorunso, a journalist for Nigeria's Ondo State Radiovision Corporation, has been rendered unconscious after allegedly being beaten by policemen at a May Day rally in Akure.
NORTH AFRICA Press freedom under threat in North Africa and Middle East
Recent reports in North Africa and the Middle East have found that the promise of earlier years does not appear to have been maintained and the trend nowadays is more towards inhibiting press freedom.
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Mobile | | AFRICA Roam freely with new global SIM
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Newspapers | | ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe journalists want better pay
[Cris Chinaka] Zimbabwean journalists marked International Press Freedom day on Thursday lamenting restrictive media laws and low pay in the shadow of a government political crackdown that has also targeted the private media.
ZIMBABWE Cops ban media freedom marches in Zimbabwe
 Zimbabwean police banned journalists from holding peaceful street marches on Thursday to commemorate World Press Freedom Day, while there were renewed calls to repeal harsh media laws and improve working conditions for journalists.
NORTH AFRICA Al-Jazeera journalist sentenced to prison for exposing torture
This trial is the most recent in a series of such actions on the part of Egyptian authorites to clamp down on what they view as news that gives a 'false' impression of the situation.
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Online Media | | AFRICA Afriville.com's pan-Africanism integration through segregation
Afriville.com, an online community of Africans at home and in diaspora, has recently been rebuilt to further bridge the gap between individual African nations and Africans abroad, whether African American, black British or African Latino. The new tools, content and forums are designed to bring the community even closer together.
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TV | | AFRICA New pay-TV service promises high quality, lower cost
[Carole Kimutai] Television viewers in Africa could soon be enjoying a new diet of programming courtesy of a new pan-African pay-TV service.
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| | Business | | Kenya announces first gold and silver eco-rating winners The Eco awards are helping to brand the country as a leading eco destination. [Business travel]
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| | Events to diarise | IFIPSec 2007 SBS Conferences - Johannesburg, South Africa, 14 May
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Africa's premier event for shared services. | | |
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