NVA in Africa - 2009 April 7

Sunday, 12 April 2009

Zimbabwe warders held for film
By: The Times, April 6, 2009
Three warders in Zimbabwe have been arrested on allegations that they filmed shocking conditions in two prisons for a documentary screened to international outrage last week. The SABC documentary, Hell Hole, on Wednesday showed skeletal prisoners dying of malnutrition and HIV-Aids without food or medication.
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Zim to relax media restrictions
By: Mail and Guardian, April 6, 2009
Zimbabwe's new power-sharing government will relax the country's harsh media laws and improve prison conditions as part of reforms to be implemented within 100 days, a minister told state media on Monday.
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Zimbabwe: WOZA intensifies campaign for "affordable education"
By: Afrique en ligne, April 4, 2009
A leading pressure group in Zimbabwe, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), on Wednesday intensified its campaign for "affordable education for all children" in the southern African country by visiting some 12 more schools across Harare and Chitungwiza, as part of its "community-based demonstrations", WOZA said in a statement received ion Dakar by PANA.
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Zimbabwe: Activists' "advertising"
By: Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, April 4, 2009
"Thanks to Mugabe, this money is wallpaper."
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Madagascar: Security forces harass bloggers and twitterers
By: Mialy Andriamananjara, Global Voices, April 2, 2009
Opponents to the Haute Autorite de la Transition (High Authority for the Transition) have been holding daily demonstrations in the Malagasy capital since March 21, 2009. Last Saturday's protest was harshly repressed by the security forces, and resulted in at least 34 injured people, including children.
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Sudan: Chilling account of the arrest of an online activist
By: Amira Al Hussaini, Global Voices, March 27, 2009
Sudanese Internet activist and lawyer Abdel Hakim Abdel Rahman Nasr was arrested in a raid on his house on the night of March 5 - and released March 11. Nasr was detained only a few hours after he expressed his support for the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on the online International Forum for Nubia, where he is a moderator.
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