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A Briefing on Escalating Media Repression in Zimbabwe

A briefing on recent developments affecting independent journalists in Zimbabwe, featuring Isabella Matambandadzo, a trustee of the Voice of the People, one of Zimbabwe's few remaining independent radio stations. Video is now online

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Friday
Mar. 3, 2006
8:00am – 9:30am ET

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The Africa Program and Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity invite you to a briefing on recent developments affecting independent journalists in Zimbabwe, featuring Isabella Matambandadzo, a trustee of the Voice of the People, one of Zimbabwe's few remaining independent radio stations. She will discuss sharply escalating government repression and intimidation against private media outlets.

Isabella Matambandadzo currently serves as Zimbabwe Program Manager for the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), Secretary General of Transparency International – Zimbabwe and is spokesperson of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition. She was formerly Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Center and Network, an organization dedicated to advancing economic opportunities for Zimbabwean women. As a journalist, she covered issues across Africa for Reuters as Senior Producer of Africa Journal, as well as for the Southern African Development Community's Press Trust, the Inter Press Service (IPS), and the Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation.

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Africa Program

The Africa Program works to address the most critical issues facing Africa and US-Africa relations, build mutually beneficial US-Africa relations, and enhance knowledge and understanding about Africa in the United States. The Program achieves its mission through in-depth research and analyses, public discussion, working groups, and briefings that bring together policymakers, practitioners, and subject matter experts to analyze and offer practical options for tackling key challenges in Africa and in US-Africa relations.    Read more

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