Southern Africa: Journalists Yet to Get Their SADC Summit Reporting Workshop Allowances

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Southern Africa: Journalists Yet to Get Their SADC Summit Reporting Workshop Allowances

[Nyasa Times] Scores of journalists who attended a three-day training workshop on Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit reporting in Salima are yet to get their daily subsistence allowances (DSAs), close to a month after the training and 10 days after the summit.

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