The African Commission on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) will hear an application against the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) at its 37th Ordinary Session in Gambia next month. The session runs from April 27 to May 11. Applicants in the case are the Independent Journalists Association of Zimbabwe (IJAZ), Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), and the Zimbabwe chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) while the respondent is cited as the Republic of Zimbabwe.

Executive Member of the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association (EFJA) Tamiru Geda has condemned the thirteen-year long blatant and systematic violations of freedom of expression by the Meles regime, one of the leading African 'predators of the press'. In a statement he sent from Europe (U.K) to EFJA on 26 March, 2005, Tamiru underlined that press freedom is one of the basic human rights that Meles Zenawi continues to violate. "Since Meles Zenawi has come to power, so many journalists have been thrown in jail, beaten, killed, harassed, intimidated, gagged and forced to live in fear."

"We, the undersigned, call on the House of Representatives of the USA, the Senate of the USA, the Parliament of Great Britain and the National Assembly of Mauritius, to work to ensure:
1. The immediate decolonization of Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago through the disbanding of the illegitimate "British Indian Ocean Territories"; the cancellation of the Orders in Council that prohibit the return of Chagossians to their native islands; the re-unification according to international law and the UN Charter, of the Republic of Mauritius that was dismembered as an illegal condition to Independence in 1968.
2. An immediate halt to ever using Diego Garcia for B-52's or other military apparatus to attack other countries (whether Afghanistan, Iraq or any other land) and the complete closing down of the United States military base on Diego Garcia."