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Is press freedom a reality in Kenya?

Nakuru journalists protest along Kenyatta Avenue in Nakuru town to mark the world press freedom day on May 3, 2018. [Photo:Harun Wathari/Standard]

This year’s World Press Freedom Day is being celebrated this Thursday in Accra, Ghana, the first time in Africa.  It is the 27th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, the premise upon which the day is based.

Media freedom refers to whether the policy and legal environment in which the media is operating in a given country is enabling or restrictive.

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