It is envisaged that at least another five member organisations will be on line by the end of the year. Until now, southern African journalists, and thus their audiences, have been cut off from each other because phone lines in the region are bad, the cost of faxing is prohibitively high, and the mail is slow and notoriously unreliable. The IFEX Communique is published weekly by the IFEX Clearing House, Toronto.
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