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Today was World Press Freedom Day, when men and women who are in love with their pens, notebooks, cameras and microphones reflect on their work and environment and what they go through to feed society with information. Kenya has positioned itself at the top spot in Africa with well-developed media, but its ranking on World Press Freedom Index has not been impressive at all.
Perhaps it is high time we started asking ourselves some tough questions. Why are some countries in the region with worse cases of violation of the rights of journalists ranked ahead of us? While we celebrate some positive developments, we cannot turn a blind eye to some challenges that can be nipped in the bud to protect the gains we have made
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