State sponsored violence against members of the Anglican Church reached new levels over the weekend as police in different parts of Harare gatecrashed church services and beat up parishioners loyal to new bishop Sebastian Bakare.

In separate cases today, a magistrate court in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, released from police custody a top newspaper editor and a leading lawyer working in defense of journalists. Both were formally charged, however, according to local sources.

May 3 was International Press Freedom Day. Journalists make their living by poking their noses into other people's affairs, but are not very good at looking at themselves, their institutions, their own practice and how they advance or hinder the

The World Press Freedom Day was marked last week on May 3, with Uganda registering no marked improvement in media freedoms. In fact, the state continued to raid media houses with the latest being The Independent, a bi-monthly magazine in

TWELVE editors from US media houses are in the country to assess various activities carried out by the government and the private sector in order to report accurately on Uganda and Africa in general.

The US Government is concerned about the current soaring food prices and energy crisis Uganda is grappling with, the US Ambassador.

The failure by a group of visiting American editors to travel to war-ravaged northern Uganda, has riled leaders in the region who accuse the senior foreign journalists of ignoring the ruinous effects of the two-decade long Lord 's Resistance Army

Here is His Excellency President Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh's speech delivered by Her Excellency the Vice President Dr Aja Isatou Njie-Saidy at the July 22nd Square yesterday

Police Wednesday arrested Mohamed Sesay an alleged rapist at Clarkes Quarter, Ngaiya Town, Nimikoro chiefdom, Kono district.

The refusal of a father to take care of his child has compelled the mother to do the unthinkable- dumping the six -month old baby in the bush.

There are heightened efforts and a strong political will in Cameroon to clean up the country from all forms of corrupt practices and embezzlement of public funds.

The Obong of Calabar, Obong Edidem Bassey Ekpo Bassey II, has accused Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State of sponsoring militants as the state has now become a safe haven for armed thugs. He also blamed the increasing cases

Even as the south-west caucus in the House of Representatives is expected to officially protest the invitation of former president Olusegun Obasanjo to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel investigating the alleged expenditure of N16

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, who is presently at large to come to court today if she wants the charges over her alleged involvement in the

The trial before the Maputo City Court of six men accused of the 1999 attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva took an unexpected turn on Monday when a former senior police officer was accused of offering journalists a huge bribe

He was jointly charged with two journalists of the same publication, John Njoroge and Charles Bichachi.

THE following legal briefing is published by The Zimbabwe Guardian to keep readers up to date with developments during the election period.

THE Police in Masaka district are holding a 25-year-old man for allegedly making counterfeit coins. Southern Police commander Andrew Sorowen said Nsubuga Katanza, a butcher of Magezi Cell in Lukaya town council, was found with materials used to make fake

Mozambican Interior Minister Jose Pacheco on Monday declared that his ministry wishes to create a more professional police force, but this will require heavy investment in training, in equipment and in police infrastructures.