=LPEDEZH moned to explain why he is not implementing envisaged media reforms as agreed to and ordered by the principals in Zimbabwe’s inclusive government. Joram Nyathi, spokesperson for the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC), the committee tasked with the duty of fully implementing the Global Political Agreement (GPA), confirmed this development to the Daily News on 8 March 2012. President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his deputy Professor Arthur Mutambara were recently reported as having ordered Shamu to immediately reconstitute the boards of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ), Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings in line with a raft of other envisaged media reforms. $OHUW Date: March 12, 2012 Person/ institution: Journalists Violation/ issue: Detained Four journalists based in Mutare, Eastern Zimbabwe, were on 9 March 2012 arrested in Nyanyadzi, Manicaland Province while covering a story on pollution in the area. Charges were still to be preferred against Sidney Saize, Andrew 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" Mambondiani, Chengetai Murimwa and Admire Matende. The four were only released on the same day at 8pm into the custody of their lawyer David Tandiri who is also a member of MISA-Zimbabwe’s Media Lawyers’ Network. The journalists were released on condition that they report at Mutare’s Law and Order section at 7am on Saturday 10 March 2012 only for them to be further released into their lawyer’s custody on condition that they report to the same section on 12 March 2012 for the determination of charges to be preferred against them. &RPPXQLTXp Date: March 19, 2012 Person/ institution: The Media Institute of Southern Africa Violation/ issue: Other The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) on 15 April 2012 bemoaned the current state of access to information in Africa, citing the negative impact the glaring lack of information is having on the citizenry. This observation was made during the ongoing NGO Forum of the 51st Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples? Rights (ACHPR) in the Gambian capital of Banjul. Referring to the African Platform on Access to