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Twenty years after the Windhoek Declaration on press freedom

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Libya, 1st April 2011. Photo by Ant<strong>on</strong> Hammerl, Africa Media Online<br />

Hammerl’s last photographs were of Benghazi-based anti-Gadaffi fighters 10km outside <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> recaptured<br />

town of Brega, engaged <strong>on</strong> an ever-moving fr<strong>on</strong>tline. On 8 April, loyalist forces attempted to re-capture <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

city. Taking advantage of a disorganised rebel retreat, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Gadaffi troops entered <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> city and had taken<br />

c<strong>on</strong>trol of most of it by 9 April. However, rebel forces so<strong>on</strong> regrouped and had pushed pro-Gaddafi forces<br />

out of <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> city by 11 April, with heavy support from NATO airstrikes. The fr<strong>on</strong>t line <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>n stagnated outside<br />

of <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> city, 40 km down <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> road to Brega. Loyalist shells c<strong>on</strong>tinued to intermittently strike <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> western gate<br />

and outskirts.<br />

Libya, 3rd April 2011. Photo by Ant<strong>on</strong> Hammerl, Africa Media Online<br />

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