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South Africa resilient to China’s efforts to influence media — Freedom House study

South Africa’s free press has been largely successful at resisting efforts by the Chinese government to influence its content, a recent study by the US-based think tank Freedom House has concluded. The Freedom House report, titled “Beijing’s Global Media Influence 2022,” said South Africans as a whole, including journalists, are highly skeptical of Chinese state […]

Morocco & U.S. Pool Efforts against WMD Threats in North Africa

Morocco and the United States co-hosted the North African Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) workshop from December 6-8 in Tangier. The workshop, the first of its kind in the region, shows the Moroccan-American partnership and commitments to countering threats from weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the region. Over the course of three days, civilian and […]

Egypt: TV anchor gets one-year prison sentence for interviewing gay sex worker

An Egyptian court has sentenced a TV anchor to one year in prison after his received a gay sex worker on his show last year. Mohammed el-Gheiti, a host and owner of private channel LTC TV, was indicted for “encouraging immorality” for interviewing in August 2018 a gay man who described his life as a […]