Let's show compassion to baby Asli

When intelligence shapes media and the State watches

Botswana prides itself, rightly, in being a democracy where journalists are not dragged out of newsrooms at dawn or hauled before courts for routine reporting. Compared to many parts of the continent, the media space remains open, civil and largely free of fear. Yet freedom is not only measured by the absence of repression. It is also measured by what journalists hesitate to ask, what editors quietly defer and which stories never quite make it to...