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Zimbabwe Media Remains Under Siege

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By Basildon Peta, Africa Editor

 

Zimbabwe remains without a single privately-owned daily newspaper or radio station, more than a year after a new unity government that promised to scrap draconian media laws and usher in media reforms  was inaugurated.

Restoring banned publications and opening up the airwaves were among the cornerstones of a Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed by President Robert Mugabe and then opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in September 2008.


As the US State Department annual human rights review, put it last week:

The government continued to restrict freedom of the press (and) controlled the state-run media, including the two remaining daily newspapers, the Chronicle and the Herald. ...High-ranking government officials, including President Mugabe, used the state-controlled media to threaten violence against suspected critics of the government.



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