President obamas aggressive are are attack on are journalists. Heres more on whats ahead. Worldwide outrage today aan egyptian core has are convicted three journalists. For doing their job. Aiding the Muslim Brotherhood. All three of them vehemently deny those charges. The white house is condemning the verdicts. The prosecution of journalists for reporting, flowts the most basi flouts the freedom. Freedom of expression. There are currently 167 journalists in prison around the world. What is going on here . What about freedom of the press . We begin with the ruling that has outraged journalists and activists around the world. Three al jazeera journalists have been convicted in egypt on charges of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood, spreading false news and endangering national security. Peter greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have denied the charges. The three men were sentenced to charges. Baher mohamed was given an additional three years because of possession of a spent bull
Your own country every day. And media is doing that. Almost every africanamerican has a flagship website thats on top of all africa. So media is playing that role, and it would keep going that way. Okay. Let me i think we have time for a couple more questions. Right here. This question is for akon and amadou. Im a technologist and we have an army of developers in africa. We constantly thinking about creating something to own that content and navigate it through, but because we are so bound into our technology mind, we dont know what to do. What kind of focus what is the media focus we should be basically focusing on . My name is abdel and im from dci. My question to the panelists and you kind of touched about it a few minutes ago but you didnt go deeper. The first fdi from africa to United States, it was here. And so far its not utilizing to its full potential to change what you all are talking about as the narrative about africa. We all in this room have been to all those little of th
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Just miles from sanford, florida, where zimmerman was acquitted of seconddegree murder and manslaughter saturday night. Separate and apart from the its time to talk about laws that senselessly talk about selfdefense and dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws tried to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a Legal Defense for using deadly force if and the if is important. If no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat outside their home if they can do so safely. We must confront the underlying attitudes, the mistaken beliefs and the unfortunate stereotypes that serve too often as the basis for Police Action and private judgments. Stereotypes. Would the attorney general include stereotypes such as a jury should be deemed racist because they are simply white or a police department, can it be considered racist beca
Just miles from sanford, florida,here zimmerman was acquitted of seconddegree murder and manslaughter saturday night. Separate and apart from the its time to talk about laws that senselessly talk about selfdefense and dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws tried to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a Legal Defense for using deadly force if and the if is important. If no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat outside their home if they can do so safely. We must confront the underlying attitudes, the mistaken beliefs and the unfortunate stereotypes that serve too often as the basis for Police Action and private judgments. Stereotypes. Would the attorney general include stereotypes such as a jury should be deemed racist because they are simply white or a police department, can it be considered racist becaus