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    JOHANNESBURG

    Angola's independent 'Radio Eclesia' has suspended broadcasting an African news service from the Catholic Church in Portugal following a government ban on the transmission of foreign news programmes.

    In what media sources in Luanda described as "more pressure on the political media", the minister of communications on Wednesday told the church-owned station that the daily news programme from Lisbon could no longer be aired.

    Meanwhile, in an alert on the government's clampdown on the independent media, the rights watchdog Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) said that at least eight journalists were interrogated by the authorities between 19 August and 6 September to "discourage commentary and reporting on the civil war."

    According to MISA, independent journalists working in war-affected areas have been particularly affected: "Several journalists in the provincial capitals of Malange in the north and Bie in the central highlands told MISA-Angola that they feared for their lives after the authorities resorted to legal actions to arrest local correspondents of national and
    independent media and labelling them enemies of the state."

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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