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World Service,10 mins

African Journalism

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The African Union wants to set up a new organisation which it says would help protect the independence of the continent's journalists. But many journalists in Africa, and the organisations which represent them, are opposed to the idea in its present form. Vincent Dowd asks why the plan is proving so controversial.

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