Malawian police on 6 April 2021 summoned a journalist for interrogation after the reporter wrote an article that was critical of President Lazarus Chakwera. Watipaso Mzungu, the chief reporter of…
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A Tanzanian official on 12 April 2021 allegedly caused the arrest of two journalists, only days after the country’s leader, President Samia Suluhu Hassan promised a change of culture in…
Zambian civil society organisations have approached the High Court in Lusaka accusing the government of violating the Constitution through the enactment of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act. Chapter…
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has ordered the re-opening of media houses that were shut during the term of her predecessor, the late John Magufuli, a development that could lead…
Samuel Takawira of 263Chat was assaulted by anti-riot police at the Magistrates Court in Harare on 6 April 2021 as they dispersed people from the court premises. Takawira sustained injuries…
Officer Commanding Bulawayo Province Commissioner Patton Mbangwa on 9 March 2021 urged journalists to adhere to the ethics of the profession in their reporting. Commissioner Mbangwa made the call during…
The Chairperson of MISA Zimbabwe, Golden Maunganidze has written to the Parliament expressing concern over the acquisition, deployment and use of surveillance tools in the country, in the absence of…
On 24 February 2021 President Emmerson Mnangagwa launched the National Data Centre in Harare. The launch is a critical step towards the fulfilment of some of the objectives under the…
The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), together with the Public Order and Security Act, enacted in 2002, were among some of the most repressive laws used…
Five journalists were detained by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police on 19 February 2021 for over five hours at Spring Farm in Karoi, owned by Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa….