It's a rude awakening after you spend a long weekend relaxing, thanks to Heritage Day in South Africa, and rock up at work to realise the rest of the world went on without you while you were thinking up some funny #braailyrics with friends and family around a fire. Media freedom remains under constant attack in Somalia with broadcasting staff walking out after refusing to follow orders to transmit Islamic messages only from militia. On the upside though, you can now keep an eye on how many censor requests your government has made to Google after the search engine released an online map early last week with details worldwide. The WAN-IFRA Women in News initiative is doing great work in Africa and is now reaching its half-way point with participants from Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Any project supporting the development of women in the workplace gets thumbs up from me - especially in Africa where women still fight constantly for equal rights in all aspects of life. Other than that, it was business as usual across the continent. Now when's that next public holiday...

Cheers, Sindy Peters, Africa editor
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