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Screenshot of Ghana's "Google Trader"
Ghana
Media | Technology | Economy - Development

Google to compete with Ghana media

afrol News - Internet giant Google today launched a new "marketplace" product exclusively in Ghana. If successful, it could seriously threaten Ghanaian media's main revenue source.

Map of the state of press freedom in 2010
Africa
Media | Science - Education

Press Freedom Index for Africa "a joke"

afrol News editorial - The reputable press freedom organisation Reporters Sans Frontières today presented its annual "Press Freedom Index". For Africa, the listing "cannot be taken seriously," the afrol News editor holds, adding that "methods are totally flawed."


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Côte d'Ivoire's Alassana Ouattara campaigns on YouTube
Africa
Technology | Media | Society

Africa's social media revolution

afrol News / Africa Renewal - Lost in the excitement about Africans' enthusiastic embrace of mobile phones is the growing use of those phones to access the Internet - particularly YouTube, Facebook and other social media sites.

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Rafael Marques
Angola
Politics | Media

Rafael Marques: The Lipstick of Dictatorship

afrol News / Misanet.com / Agora - The following article by prominent Angolan journalist Rafael Marques was published in Agora newspaper on 3 July 1999. In January 2002, Marques was instructed by the Provincial Court of Luanda to pay compensation of 30,000 kwanza (about US$ 950) to President Eduardo dos Santos, after the court found him guilty of defaming, slandering and injuring the President.

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