Future of press freedom in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe remains open
(World News Austria)

Three weeks after a military intervention ended the 37-year rule of autocratic former President Robert Mugabe, journalists and media experts in Zimbabwe say it is still too early to tell whether the political transition will ultimately herald a more open environment for the press. Under Mugabe, Zimbabwe was among the world`s most censored countries. The little independent media that existed faced persistent harassment and even minor anti-government protests were met with excessive force. `By and large, the state of media in Zimbabwe [in recent years] has been deplorable,` Tabani Moyo, acting director of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), told IPI in an interview. Moyo noted that...