There has been a wave of high-profile media censorship cases around the continent, raising concerns that governments are growing less tolerant towards media freedoms.
Legalbrief reports that the issue is also under the spotlight in South Africa where media organisations are grappling with Fifa over media restrictions ahead of the 2010 World Cup.
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The tension between Zimbabwe's two main coalition partners last week escalated sharply when Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's top aide angrily denounced President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF for 'waging war' against the democratic reform process.
A US judge has ordered the son of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor to pay more than $22m to five people tortured during its civil war, notes a 
Uganda's controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is likely to be changed, a Minister has told 
The threat by influential Christian leaders to mobilise a vote against Kenya's draft Constitution if it does not explicitly prevent any expansion of abortion rights appears to have succeeded.
