Journos left out in the cold - African Union in Maputo SA

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Several hundred journalists covering a summit of the African Union in Maputo were seething on Thursday after being barred from the conference venue and cut off from the heads of state and ministers.

When the three-day summit opened on Thursday morning, security men allowed the journalists into the precincts for just three minutes to record the beginning of a conference designed to revolutionise co-operation on the continent.

South African police brought in to ensure the security of the summit forced the journalists massed outside the press entrance to lay all their equipment on the ground, to be gone over by sniffer dogs.

Once the official opening ceremony was over, the conference centre, financed by China and built especially for the summit, was sealed off to the journalists.

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