The Mubarak Show

Hosni Mubarak denied all charges of economic corruption, illegal export dealings and murder against him during his first day in court. Mubarak, laid out on a stretcher in a cage in his Cairo courtroom, and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal (each holding a Quran in their hands), are represented by Farid al-Deeb, a lawyer […]

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Journalism in Ethiopia

Head Case

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Source. Via Stephen Coplan.

MUSEVENI LOVES HIMSELF A FREE PRESS HE CAN CONTROL

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Like all good autocrats pretending to be democrats, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni (he’s been in power since 1986) has to express his disgust with a free press sometime under the guise of being an African: “You rarely inform. You rarely educate. You entertain, yes. But you mostly lie and incite. I have so much evidence to […]

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