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  On Wednesday, October 28, the UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, was denied entry into Zimbabwe, although he was invited into the country by Morgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister. His visit had been postponed due to an unplanned meeting with the South African Development Community (Sadc) and leaders of the power-sharing government. There was also rivalry in the government between Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the Zanu-PF party of president Robert Mugabe. Despite the problems, Nowak didn’t want to cancel the mission because he had spent a lot of money on the trip and was responding to an official government invitation, so the meeting was postponed to Thursday morning at 10 o’clock.  __Sources: __ BBC News: [] Al Jazerra: []  __Similarities and Differences: __  Both articles included only one photo, and the photographs were a close-up of Manfred Nowak, the UN torture investigator. The articles also contained quotes from the UN and many from Nowak. Similarly, both indicated that Nowak’s visit was called off because of the Sadc and the conflicts between Tsvangirai’s MDC and Mugabe’s Zanu-PF. Tsvangirai’s temporary withdrawal of co-operation with the unity government two weeks ago was stated in both Al Jazeera and BBC.  Although many quotes from Nowak were put in the articles, none of the quotes from BBC News were repeated in Al Jazeera’s article. BBC also gave more information about the MDC and Zanu-PF and was longer. It had said, “ Party spokesman Nelson Chamisa said a senior official had been stopped and beaten by Zanu-PF supporters on Tuesday morning. Days earlier, and MDC residence was raided by police,” while Al Jazeera told more of what happened with Nowak and what he did in Zimbabwe. BBC also gave titles, for example, “Mr Nowak” and “Mr Tsvangirai,” and Al Jazeera only called them by last name, and BBC provided an interview of Nowak along with the article.  __Opinion: __  I thought that although the BBC coverage gave more information, the Al Jazeera coverage was more focused on the topic of why Nowak wasn’t given clearance for entry into Zimbabwe and what he did with the problem. But I learned a lot about the event from each article and both gave out a lot of information.  I thought that it wasn’t right of the government to cancel the meeting with Manfred Nowak at the last minute and not allow him into the country. The two parties should have given Nowak one clear message, even if they had conflicts between each other. The invitation was the first time that Zimbabwe had offered to work with an expert from the UN human rights council, so the United Nations and Nowak should have been treated better. 
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">UN Torture Investigator Denied Entry into Zimbabwe **