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Harare - Zimbabwe's media commission said on Wednesday it had licensed four private daily newspapers, including the banned Daily News, as the new unity government takes steps to open up the media.
The southern African country, whose media is dominated by government and whose laws bar foreign journalists from long-term employment, created the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) this year under reforms to open up the political system.
Commission chairperson Godfrey Majonga said the media body had received four applications for daily papers, including from the Daily News, which was banned in 2003 and was critical of President Robert Mugabe.
NewsDay, which is owned by local media entrepreneur Trevor Ncube, has also been licensed and the weekly Financial Gazette will also launch a daily.
"The ZMC has accepted to grant all the above registration certificates," Majonga told reporters. "We are here to allow Zimbabweans access to media."
- Sapa