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Namibia to host World Press Freedom seminar

    JOHANNESBURG

    More than 200 people, mainly journalists from Africa and other regions of the world, were expected to attend a May conference in Namibia, to mark this year’s World Press Freedom Day, PANA reported on Thursday. UNESCO and the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) would be organising the 3-5 May meeting, in conjunction with the Namibian National Commission, according to a joint UNESCO-MISA press release.

    The conference will coincide with the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the MISA after the 1991 seminar on the promotion of independent and pluralistic media. The 1991 Windhoek seminar was organised by UNESCO and the United Nations Department of Public Information. Ten years on, the significance and legacy of that seminar continued to be recognised all over the world, said the statement.

    It added that the declaration was seen as a “benchmark not only for the entire UN system, but also for the governmental and non-governmental organisations in the media field”. The World Press Freedom Day ceremony, which includes the award of the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, would precede the three-day conference.

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