national interest Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/national-interest/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 national interest Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/national-interest/ 32 32 Four Africans beat UK and France on media freedom https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/four-africans-beat-uk-france-media-freedom/ Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/four-africans-beat-uk-france-media-freedom/ South Africa among four nations on the continent adjudged to have better media freedom than Britain and France. Reporters Without Borders says Apartheid era legislation and the 2004 terrorism laws are used to limit South African media  coverage of institutions in which national interest is supposedly at stake. Reporters Without Borders’ annual barometer says Norway, […]

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Reporters Without Borders says Apartheid era legislation and the 2004 terrorism laws are used to limit South African media  coverage of institutions in which national interest is supposedly at stake.

Reporters Without Borders’ annual barometer says Norway, Sweden and Finland have the freest media on the planet.

Namibia number 24, Ghana at number 26, Cape Verde, one place below that, and 31st placed South Africa are the top scorers on the continent.

At the bottom of the 180-nation table is North Korea with Eritrea only just place ahead.

Fifty two journalists died doing their jobs during 2017 and 178 were jailed by angry authorities.

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