Full Coverage: Information & media

28.01.2005 "Let me describe the scene on the ground here in 'liberated' Iraq. With the 'elections' just three days away, people are terrified. Families are fleeing Baghdad much as they did prior to the invasion of the country...huge lines of cars are stacked up at checkpoints on the outer edges of the city. Policemen and Iraqi soldiers are trying to convince people to stay in the city and vote. Nobody is listening to them."

26.01.2005 Media rights watchdogs have long criticised the conditions under which journalists in Zimbabwe operate. Since the start of the year, however, the circumstances of the country’s media have become bleaker still.

26.01.2005 A fact-finding mission to Tunisia undertaken by IFEX members has found "serious cause for concern" about the current state of freedom of expression and of civil liberties in the country, including gross restrictions on freedom of the press, media, publishing and the Internet.

20.01.2005 The only women’s radio station in Afghanistan, that focussed on women-related issues, that was forced to close down due to the non-availability of resources has been restarted with the help of an international NGO.

19.01.2005 Governments around the world should do more to protect journalists, says an international umbrella group for the profession, International Federation of Journalists, as it unveiled figures showing that 2004 was the most dangerous year on record.

18.01.2005 Dans la province d'Aceh, en Indonésie, l'une des zones les plus durement frappées par le tsunami qui a dévasté les communautés côtières de l'Asie du Sud, les journalistes et le personnel de soutien du « Serambi Indonesia » refusent de succomber à la tragédie. En dépit de la mort de la moitié des employés, le journal - unique quotidien indépendant de l'Aceh - continue à paraître, selon ce que rapporte l' Association mondiale des journaux (AMJ).

07.01.2005 The privately-owned newspaper The Post in Zambia is taking significant steps to make technological advances. The most recent measure towards improvement is not only for the publication itself but for the entire nation. The latest stage in this major project launched two years ago, is to implement a nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP) project.

07.01.2005 Brenda Zulu, a freelance Zambian journalist and OneWorld Africa (OWA) volunteer editor, specialising in reporting about Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has won the first prize of the Kalam Awards 2004 in the category of print press for an article titled "Tele-health set to boost maternal care".