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Newsletter n° 5 |
19.02.04 |
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| The Business of Newspapers
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| Press Freedom Spotlight on Cameroon: Another Journalist Flees His Home Country |
"Continue to write about the President and you will see what happens" is only one of the many threats Georges Yepndjo received, before he decided to leave Cameroon in July 2003. Today he is living in France as an outlaw, dreaming of the day when he can return to his home country and work as a free journalist.
"The government does not understand that the media is not there to make a war against them. We want to change the country to the better," says Georges Yepndjo and describes how most articles that could be perceived as critical by the government are censored and the journalists behind them persecuted.
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| NEWS FROM THE MEDIA SCENE
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| Rwanda: First Sports and Entertainment Newspaper Launched |
The first publication entirely devoted to sports and entertainment was launched in Rwanda in January 2004. The "Rwanda Championi", which appears in Kinyarwanda, the national language, is printed in Uganda and has an average circulation of 1,000. In addition to sports, the weekly also covers local and international celebrities and other entertainment news.
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| PRESS FREEDOM
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| Alerts from the Continent |
This week: Uganda takes a step forward in press freedom, one journalist is expelled from Egypt and another is severely beaten in Chad.
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