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DonateNew York, November, 18, 2010--Reporter Nqobani Ndlovu remained in police custody today despite expectations that he would appear in court on criminal defamation charges, local journalists told CPJ. Police in Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo, arrested Ndlovu, a reporter for the private weekly Standard, on Wednesday and charged him with criminal defamation in relation to an article concerning the cancellation of police promotion examinations, according to local journalists.
Committee to Protect Journalists
Zimbabwe
2010
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York, November 11, 2010--Zimbabwean police
should withdraw an arrest
warrant issued last week against exiled editor Wilf
Mbanga concerning a 2008 story about the murder of an election official,
the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
As heads of state gathered last week at the summit of the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, in Namibia, their discussions were dominated by the progress of Zimbabwe's precarious power-sharing political agreement, which includes pledges to address a repressive media environment. Leading the mediation in the Zimbabwean crisis has been neighboring South Africa, which has been seen as a one-eyed man among the blind in terms of democracy and press freedom in Southern Africa. Yet the moral authority of South African president Jacob Zuma in Zimbabwe's situation is undermined by proposals of his African National Congress-led government to restrict the vibrant press in South Africa.
New York, August 13, 2010--A Zimbabwean minister who threatened to jail journalists should retract his statement and honor an agreement to implement media reform, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Information Minister Webster Shamu made the threat on August 4 against journalists who used information he said had been leaked from cabinet meetings.
Each year, UNESCO honors a courageous international journalist with the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, named in honor of the Colombian editor murdered in 1986 by the Medellín Cartel. The prize is chosen by an independent jury and over the years I've attended several moving ceremonies in which some of the most daring journalists of our generation have been honored.
New York, May 27, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists hails the Zimbabwe
Media Commission’s decision to grant publishing licenses to The Daily News, the long-banned independent
newspaper, and a handful of other publications. Commission Chairman Godfrey
Majonga announced on Wednesday that the licenses would be issued immediately,
marking the first time in nearly seven years that an independent daily will be allowed
to print domestically, local journalists told CPJ.
Zimbabwe’s beleaguered independent media won a major victory
when an official commission granted publishing licenses to four daily newspapers,
including The Daily News, the nation’s
leading paper before it was outlawed seven years ago. The news was greeted with cheers from independent journalists, who have endured years of repression, arrest, and violence at the hands of 
By Tom Rhodes
High numbers of local journalists have fled several African countries in recent years after being assaulted, threatened, or imprisoned, leaving a deep void in professional reporting. The starkest examples are in the Horn of Africa nations of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, where dozens of journalists have been forced into exile. Zimbabwe, Rwanda, and the Gambia have also lost large segments of the local press corps in the face of intimidation and violence.
• Government fails to implement reforms allowing private media to operate.
• Two international broadcasters allowed to resume operation.
$32,000: Application and accreditation fees imposed on international journalists.
In a measure of the deplorable state of press freedom in Zimbabwe, a year marked by harassment and obstruction was considered a small step forward. “Journalists continue to be followed, detained, and abducted; phones and e-mail messages are intercepted; the output of news from government reminds one of Radio Moscow during the Soviet era,” Geoff Hill, exiled Zimbabwean journalist and author, told CPJ.
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