February 6, 2025
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NBC: War On Hate Speech Or Free Speech?

At a meeting with media houses on August 10, 2017 in Lagos, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) communicated new rules for radio and TV broadcasters. The NBC says the new rules are meant to curb “hate speech”. The rules include the following provisions: ● Stations allowing callers to air “perceived hate speech” to be fined […]
World

Burundi Media, Activists Bemoan Mounting Harassment

As tensions mount in Burundi ahead of presidential elections, journalists and activists say they are paying an increasingly heavy price as standard bearers for free speech. Civil rights in the small Great Lakes nation, they say, are on the decline – sacrificed at the altar of President Pierre Nkurunziza’s controversial ambition to defy a two-term […]