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WikiLeaks has published its full archive of 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables, without redactions, potentially exposing thousands of individuals named in the documents to detention, harm or putting their lives in danger.

The move has been strongly condemned by the five previous media partners – the Guardian, New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde – who have worked with WikiLeaks publishing carefully selected and redacted documents.

"We deplore the decision of WikiLeaks to publish the unredacted state department cables, which may put sources at risk," the organisations said in a joint statement.

"Our previous dealings with WikiLeaks were on the clear basis that we would only publish cables which had been subjected to a thorough joint editing and clearance process. We will continue to defend our previous collaborative publishing endeavour. We cannot defend the needless publication of the complete data – indeed, we are united in condemning it.

"The decision to publish by Julian Assange was his, and his alone."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/02/wikileaks-publishes-cache-unredacted-cables

An Ethiopian reporter has fled the country after being named in a WikiLeaks cable, in what a media rights group said was the first instance of one of the leaks causing direct repercussions for a journalist.

Wikileaks recently published all its cables unredacted, naming sources that were removed by partner media organisations, including the Guardian.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said reporter Argaw Ashine fled at the weekend after being interrogated over the identity of a government source mentioned in a leaked 2009 US cable. Argaw was the local correspondent for Kenya's Nation Media Group.

The cable said Argaw was told by an unnamed source that the government would target six journalists from a newspaper seen as critical of the government. That paper closed later that year after citing harassment and intimidation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/15/wikileaks-named-ethiopian-reporter-flees

The release of the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables on Zimbabwe now threatens to spark a showdown with so-called "sell-outs" in the country.

The release of the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables on Zimbabwe, which has caused a rift in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party, now threatens to spark a showdown with so-called “sell-outs” in the country.

The Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) has launched an investigation into two of its senior army commanders, Major General Fidelis Satuku and Brigadier General Herbert Chingono, for their secret correspondence with the United States envoy to Harare, Charles Ray, in January last year. In the meetings the two military strongmen allegedly derided the incumbent ZDF army commander, General Constantine Chiwenga, as being a “political appointee with little practical military experience or expertise”.

Satuku and Chingono face a military court martial, punishable either by death or imprisonment, if they are found guilty of meeting the US ambassador. Acknowledging the dire consequences if details of the secret meetings were be to leaked, Ray is recorded in the diplomatic cable as saying the two serving military officers took a “grave personal risk” in meeting him and should be “strictly protected”.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-23-wikileaks-puts-zim-generals-in-firing-line