Botswana

The image of Botswana as a bastion of press freedom and good governance has been dented following the arrest of an editor of a privately owned newspaper, and the seizure of his computer. A tweet from a reporter in Botswana on Tuesday morning alerted the Committee to Protect Journalists to the arrest: "Editor Outsa Mokone arrested and veteran reporter Edgar Tsimane flees Botswana says he fears for...

TONOTA - Some Tonota residents have described media workers as heartless ambulance chasers who pursue tragic stories for headline news. During a kgotla meeting addressed by the Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Mrs Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, the residetns accussed the news media of focusing on sensational news without regard for the truth. Journalists do not take peoples feelings...