ZIMBABWE’S government claims that a recent Hollywood film starring Nicole Kidman was a “CIA-sponsored” campaign targeting President Robert Mugabe and has vowed to fight that “cultural and psychological” onslaught on Harare.

THE chairman of Zimbabwe’s media commission, which has shut down four independent newspapers in two years, lashed out yesterday at a new weekly newspaper published in Britain but distributed in Zimbabwe.

AS JOURNALISTS the world over commemorated World Press Freedom Day yesterday, another independent newspaper in Zimbabwe faces closure after the Media and Information Commission appointed by the Government claimed it was publishing illegally.