“It has always been like that to a certain extent; it is even worse now,” opposition National Democratic Party leader Saboi Imboela told DW, arguing state-owned media gives more coverage to the ruling party, while opposition voices largely rely on private outlets.
More than 2,500 people had visas and tickets to fly to Zambia for RightsCon this month. That's an annual gathering of digital rights and human rights advocates. And then in late April, the team of RightsCon director Nikki Gladstone got a call from a Zambian official. NIKKI GLADSTONE: In that call, they let us know that diplomats from the People's Republic of China were putting pressure on the government of Zambia because Taiwanese civil society participants were planning to join us in person.
Starting with the hosts, enduring what was a public African Nations Championship nightmare last month, Zambia are enduring what has been another extended crisis. Losing all of their four Group A appearances by an aggregate score of 8-2 as they finished rock-bottom of the table, Avram Grant finds a huge amount of pressure on his shoulders. Failing to collect a single competitive victory across any competition over the past 11 months,
"This conception that the cyber laws are perhaps meant to intrude, to go into your personal details in a willy-nilly fashion is not correct," said Mulambo Haimbe, Zambia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He articulated that the legislation aims to protect citizens online, countering claims that the government's objective is to compromise personal privacy.
