Economist: “Mugabe plainly loath to give reign to a free press”
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From the Daily Press (before government control in 2003)
A power-sharing arrangement in Zimbabwe between President Mugabe and the rival Movement for Democratic Change has mandated a free press. However, as reported in this week’s Economist, those freedom’s have yet to materialize that the only available daily is still a government mouthpiece.
Zimbabwe continues to rank miserably on the Freedom House international press freedom rankings and despite agreements to open up the print outlets to opposition voices, there is no sign of the government releasing control of television or the radio airways. We’ll be following this story to see the effects, if any, of the new power-sharing government on the advancement of new news outlets.
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