The newly-elected executive of the Federation of Southern African Journalists: Phillimom Mmeso (Botswana Media and Allied Workers Union), Perfect Hlongwane (Zimbabwe Union of Journalists), Omar Faruk Osman (FAJ president), Marafaele Mohloboli (Journalists Association of Lesotho), Jemima Beukes (Namibia Media Professionals Union), and Maria Patricio Xavier (Mozambique National Journalists Union).

After four days strategising with the leaders of southern Africa’s journalists’ unions in Gaborone, Botswana, a moment’s downtime felt deserved. I picked up a copy of local paper, The Voice, and started to read. By page six the issues facing Africa’s journalists …

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Saher Saed (GFPTU general secretary, Christy Hoffman (UNI general secretary), Luc Triange (ITUC general secretary) at a press conference in Ramallah, May 2024 ©Tim Dawson

History crowds in as you approach the Allenby crossing. It spans the Jordan river, linking the Kingdom of Jordan with the occupied West Bank. Suspended across domed concrete abutments, it resembles a space craft marooned in the desert. The Dead …

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Dutch journalist Step Vaessen speaks to the EFJ general meeting

The European Federation of Journalists annual meeting, Den Haag, Netherlands 11/12 May 2023 “Media self-censorship undermines press freedom”, Dutch Al-Jazeera correspondent Step Vaessen told delegates to the European Federation of Journalists annual meeting. She was addressing the gathering in The …

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