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John Manyarara Investigative Journalism Awards
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The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is inviting entries for the MISA John Manyarara Investigative Journalism Awards 2008. The awards, which are organized in partnership with FAIR, seek to recognize excellence in investigative journalism in any form of media in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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Global IJ Conference, Lillehammer, 2008
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FAIR will again be represented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, to be held in September 2008 in Lillehammer, Norway. This year, the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Journalism (SKUP) are the organizers of the event. 500 journalists from more than 60 countries are expected to attend this fifth Global Investigative Journalism Conference.
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FAIR chairman wins Knight International Journalism Award
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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has announced that the 2008 Knight International Journalism Award has been won jointly by Ugandan investigative journalist Frank Nyakairu, -the chairman of FAIR- and Belarus editor and press freedom champion Aliaksei Karol.
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FAIR makes waves in Ivory Coast
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A presentation of FAIR at the occasion of a high-level media development debate, titled 'The Right to Inform', in Abdijan, Ivory Coast, resulted in applause for FAIR Ivory Coast member Eric Mwamba. Mwamba had highlighted the need for more investigative journalism, and journalism 'of quality' in Ivory Coast, where many media institutions still practice, as many at the meeting concurred, a 'journalism of
complacency'.
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Region Awash With Fake Malaria Medicine
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14 May 2008 Rwanda News Agency/Agence (Kigali)
The East African Community block is one of the regions most affected by the surge in fake malaria medicines that still remain on the prescription list of private pharmacies, a news study suggests.
The block includes Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Tanzania but the study released last week by US-based The Public Library of Science (PLoS) was done in four capitals except for Burundian Bujumbura.
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Senate Insists On Probing Past Govt
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14 May 2008 Vanguard (Lagos)
Emmanuel Aziken and Laide Akinboade
THE Senate, yesterday, pledged to continue with its probe of some selected agencies of the Federal Government, saying such probes would make members of the executive arm accountable for their own actions in future.
The Senate spoke as it emerged that its ad-hoc committee probing the transportation sector during the Obasanjo years consulted the Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Deziani Allison-Madueke, on the funding of the sector before her appointment.
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Killing Raises Doubts Over Elgon Operation
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12 May 2008 The Nationn (Nairobi)
Ben Opala
The killing of a peasant in the ongoing Mt Elgon operation has raised fresh doubts in a security undertaking once touted a success against a ragtag militia that had earlier claimed 700 lives in just 18 months.
Consequently, lawyers and the Catholic Church want an independent investigations under the guidance of the UN "in order to establish those behind the torture and killing of innocent people" in Elgon and neighbouring areas.
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Kenya: Why Kibaki-Raila Cabinet Deal Stalled
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10 April 2008 The Nation (Nairobi)
Bernard Namunane
Nairobi
Firm demands on ministerial positions, different interpretations of the National Accord, the lacuna in the agreement and the fate of internal refugees are to blame for the failure by President Kibaki and Prime Minister-designate Raila Odinga to give the country a new Cabinet.
Public anxiety over the procrastination in the announcement of the Cabinet has turned into anger in some parts of the country, while international concern has blossomed into direct intervention by foreign diplomats.
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Sudan: Militia Attacks Threaten Crucial Census
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09 April 2008 Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC)
Militia attacks on travelers in disputed areas dividing northern and southern Sudan may reflect a Sudanese government attempt to skew a crucial census registration, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks are deterring displaced people from returning to the disputed areas to register for the national census, which is important for future elections, a referendum on independence for the south, and resource distribution between Khartoum and southern Sudan.
The census is a critical element in implementing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended the 21-year war between the northern-based Sudanese government in Khartoum and the southern Sudanese rebels. The nationwide census is scheduled for April 14-30, 2008.
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Zimbabwe: Scent of Opportunity From Amid the Ruins
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11 April 2008 Business Day (Johannesburg)
Edward West
SOUTH African business has caught the scent of change in Zimbabwe. Re-searchers have been commissioned, dusty project plans for that country have been taken off the shelves and new opportunities are being scrutinised.
Long aware of the negative effect Zimbabwe has had on investment confidence, businesspeople are understandably cautious about committing publicly to new investment there until the political situation changes, but they give the unmistakable impression that, with the right government in place, they'd be ready to run with new opportunities in Zimbabwe soon.
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Nigeria: SERAP Petitions International Criminal Court Over Corruption
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10 April 2008 Vanguard (Lagos)
Innocent Anaba
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Netherlands, requesting the Court to investigate whether the corruption in Nigeria perpetrated by past governments amounted to crime against humanity.
SERAP's counsel, Mr Femi Falana, in the petition addressed to the Persecutor of the Court, said, "use your position and powers to examine and investigate whether the systemic/grand corruption in Nigeria amounts to a crime against humanity within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and to prevail on the Nigerian government to fulfil its obligations to effectively and fairly investigate and prosecute all allegations of grand corruption since 1985".
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Burkina Faso: Meningitis Epidemics in Vaccinated Areas
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10 April 2008 UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Ouagadougou
People vaccinated against meningitis are supposed to have protection for three years but health officials have announced that meningitis epidemics have occurred in several areas where populations had recently been immunized.
"[Health researchers] are currently collecting information so as to identify the factors explaining the recurrence of the epidemic in districts where populations have been vaccinated", Ousmane Badolo, head of the epidemiologic surveillance department at the ministry of health, told IRIN.
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Journalist held after investigating 'mining swindles' in DRC
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15 January 2008
Maurice Kayombo, a journalist with Les Grands Enjeux, -a monthly investigative magazine printed in South Africa and distributed in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi-, has been detained for the past week in a holding cell of the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court. Les Grands Enjeux had been investigating 'mining swindles' in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Arms deal: Southafrican ministers got millions
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14 December 2007
It's official: German prosecutors believe Tony Georgiadis, the shipping tycoon regarded as close to President Thabo Mbeki, helped channel millions of dollars in arms deal bribes to "South African officials and cabinet members".
The explosive allegation is contained in a request for legal assistance, seen by the Mail & Guardian, that the German embassy in Pretoria forwarded to the department of foreign affairs on September 28.
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