MALAWI

Malawi cracks down on media covering protests

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned sweeping arrests and attacks on journalists, as well as censorship by the administration of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika against media outlets reporting on nationwide anti-government protests that erupted on Wednesday, 20 July 2011. Read more >>

MALAWI

Malawi: MACRA stops radio coverage of demonstrations

[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi, on 20 July 2011, turned on its head as demonstrations against bad governance turned violent, prompting Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) to stop all privately-owned radio stations, which had been covering the proceedings live, from doing so. Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), Capital Radio and Joy Radio all confirmed receiving communication from MACRA to stop covering the demonstrations. Read more >>

ZAMBIA

Zambian ruling party members charged in TV crew attack

NEW YORK: Zambian law enforcement and judiciary officials must ensure that justice is fully served in Monday's attack against three television journalists and their driver, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday, 20 July 2011. Two officials of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) have been arrested in connection with the attack. Read more >>

AFRICA

So your PA is a web specialist?

[Donna Stephen] Have you seen the kind of job ad looking for a PA/web co-ordinator, including secretarial duties and running the company web strategy/SEO/social media? I have - too many times. These same companies use their poor results obtained by their junior PA for their website traffic, as justification for why it's not worth investing in a "qualified" or "expensive" web specialist. Read more >>

AFRICA

A first for Africa, FNB launches smartphone, tablet app

A first for South Africa and the continent, one of South Africa's Big Four, First National Bank (FNB) announced the launch of the FNB Banking App for smartphones and tablets. Read more >>

AFRICA

Teaching information ethics in Africa

PARIS: An academic workshop on information ethics took place from 4-5 July 2011 at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. A number of delegates from universities in Africa, Europe and the United States of America gathered to discuss the principles related to the development of a curriculum for teaching information ethics in Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

Rhodes University to open new Telkom-Highway Africa Building

Rhodes University plans to officially open the new Telkom-Highway Africa Building at a ceremony at the campus on Friday, 29 July 2011. The Telkom-Highway Africa Building is part of Telkom's contribution to the success of the annual Highway Africa conference. Read more >>

ZIMBABWE

Indian investor eyes stake in Zim phone operator

HARARE: Zimbabwe's debt saddled and sole fixed landline phone operator, Tel*One, is set to undergo a restructuring exercise which will result in the government losing its majority control in the firm as the commercialisation of loss-making state parastatals gathers pace despite stiff resistance from some officials. Read more >>

AFRICA

AU, AfricaRice to promote Africa's rice sector

COTONOU: In recognition of the growing importance of rice as a strategic crop for Africa's food security and poverty reduction, the African Union Commission and the Africa Rice Centre (AfricaRice) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly promote the rice sector in the continent through research, development, supportive policies and capacity building. Read more >>

UGANDA

Uganda: Information minister roots for local television content

[Walter Wafula] Uganda's minister of information has urged domestic pay television companies to increase local programming to be more relevant to viewers. Read more >>

UNITED STATES

2011 Tabbie Awards winners

CLEVELAND, US: The 2011 Tabbie Awards featured nearly 400 entries, with nominations coming from the US, Canada, the UK, India, New Zealand and South Africa. Judges were once again impressed by the quality of the submissions. One of the two 2011 Scholarship winners hails from South Africa. Read more >>

UNITED KINGDOM

The ProPublica reader's guide to the phone hacking scandal

[Braden Goyette, ProPublica] Though News of the World shut its doors on Sunday, the UK's hacking scandal is deepening. Allegations of illegal activity have spread beyond News of the World to other Murdoch papers, and far beyond hacking into people's voice mails. With all the new details emerging, it's getting hard to keep track. Read more >>