Why must we worry about the Media Appeals Tribunal and the Protection of Information Bill? - Julie Reid Julie Reid is an academic and media analyst at the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She writes

Read the rest of South Africa: A war on media freedoms? »

Erick Kabendera – a journalist based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - discusses the dynamics of Tanzania’s recent national and Presidential elections, highlighting divisions that national political leaders have more many years sought to obscure. The outgoing prime minister struggled to persuade voters

Read the rest of Tanzania: A quietly divided nation »