The Supply Initiative: meeting the need for reproductive health supplies, has a new monthly newsletter that provides updates on the Supply Initiative activities, as well as news, materials and events related to condom and contraceptive shortages.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed outrage at the five-year sentence given to Donatien Nyembo Kimuni, Lubumbashi correspondent for the Kinshasa-based private weekly La Tribune, on a charge of defamation. The charge stemmed from a June 5 La Tribune article by Kimuni titled, "Congo Mineral: Workers Are Paid Poorly and Exploited." According to journalists at La Tribune, Kimuni had based his article on a report from a public mining firm and the testimony of local miners who alleged that Congo Mineral, a private mining company, provided poor working conditions for its employees.

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has appealed to all sides in the fighting in Liberia to avoid harming journalists after a French photographer, Patrick Robert, was seriously wounded in the chest and arm during clashes on 19 July 2003 between government and rebel forces on the outskirts of Monrovia.

The Battle in Seattle brought to the world's attention a new global resistance movement that was not only made possible by the Internet but, as Naomi Klein has deftly pointed out, was shaped in its image. Sharing the Internet's architecture of interconnected hubs and spokes, the new movement was a coalition of coalitions, a decentralized network of campaigns "intricately and tightly linked to one another."

Knowledge is key to an effective anti-corruption strategy. The Southern African Corruption Information Centre – Online is the first portal of its kind on the African continent. It aims to provide policy-makers, researchers, activists, academics, the media as well as public and private sector officials with access to material on corruption as well as strategies to combat graft and corruption. The centre provides information with a specific Southern African focus. A search function makes available over 500 abstracted documents which include legal documents, government/civil society reports, journal articles and conference papers.

At the expense of local media, South African media were given access to events during the British Princess Anne's official visit to Lesotho in the week of July 16, 2003.

The July 2003 issue of the quarterly newsletter includes dispatches from Iraq and Afghanistan, coverage of a new inter-agency HIV/AIDS initiative with peacekeepers in Sierra Leone, a new partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) in Swaziland, interviews conducted in a refugee camp in Zambia and in an HIV-testing clinic in Zimbabwe, and reports from UNFPA humanitarian strategy conferences held to address regional crises in West Africa and Southern Africa.

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In an interview published in the last issue of "A World of Science", the quarterly newsletter of UNESCO's Natural Sciences Sector, Abdul Waheed Khan, the Organisation's Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, explains how information and knowledge can contribute to development in a world where 80% of people still lack access to basic telecommunication tools.

A group of 767 people walked l3km to Lumley beach on May 31st to raise money for cataract victims and condom users. The sum of one hundred and nine million Leones was raised.

Includes: How many portraits does a dictator need to flatter himself?; Rhodesians never die: they're alive and well and living in the politburo; POSA is LOMA's ghost, and we need to chase it out - one time!; Bob and Bush have more in common than we realised.

Africa's editors are today communicating more and more through the internet, forming members-only chatrooms to exchange thoughts on the issues that confront the continent. But while such an exchange is welcome, the editors are worried that their privileged access to the internet may distance them from the vast majority of Africans who because of poverty are excluded from the information revolution.

People in poor countries could soon have a new and cheap way to get hold of the wealth of information on the internet. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a search engine designed for people with a slow net connection.

Three journalists have been ordered to pay a fine of K450, 000 (approx. 5 000 US dollars) to Stanbic Bank Malawi managing director Victor Mbewe, his wife and Stanbic Bank as compensation for a defamatory story the paper ran in December 2002.

Editors from private media houses met in Blantyre, to discuss political violence against journalists. The meeting held under the auspices of the media watchdog the National Media Institute of Southern Africa was convened to review the state of media environment in the wake of the beating up of "The Nation"journalist, Daniel Nyirenda, and other journalists who were harassed during the UDF mini-convention

This issue includes:
-Human Rights Art Student Exchange
- Visiting Artist: Anthony Nkotsi
- Exhibition: South African Bill of Rights in Massachusetts
- Burma in Need for Support
- Human Rights Film Festival
- Coming Up: Images Portfolio in Constitutional Court.

Nelson Mandela, two days before his 85th birthday, says he will continue to seek funding for schools projects and programmes geared at fighting HIV/Aids. "I will spend the rest of my days trying to help secure a more educated and healthier South Africa," Mandela said on Wednesday.

The outreach campaign being conducted by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) represents yet another attempt by the authorities to frustrate aspiring broadcasters through delays. The questionnaire's results are obvious-they will either justify ZBC's unfair monopoly in the sector or give good reason for the need for an alternative government run broadcaster.

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Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has protested the arrest of Ferdinand Samba, publication director of the independent daily "Le Démocrate", who was detained for four days, beyond the legal time limit for detentions in police custody. The organisation has expressed concern about the deteriorating press freedom situation in the Central African Republic (CAR). "This latest incarceration of a CAR journalist is all the more dismaying in that General François Bozizé's new regime had made specific commitments regarding media freedom and had earlier announced the decriminalisation of press law violations," RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard said.

Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Daher Ahmed Farah, an opposition party leader and director of his party's newspaper. Daher Ahmed Farah, a prisoner of conscience, has been repeatedly arrested because of his peacefully-held political opinions.