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Zambia: Ground set for Zambia Media Council launch
The launch of the Zambia Media Council (ZAMEC) has been set for 3 May 2010 to coincide with the commemoration of the World Press...
Angola: Female journalists call for speed up in dealing with criminal cases
The Forum of Women Journalists for Gender Equality (FMJIG) urged for the need to speed up in handling of the criminal cases of individuals...
South Africa: Harassments and threats against journalists increases in South Africa
Press freedom is becoming a matter of concern in South Africa ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa with various media...
Nation’s Only Daily Black Newscast BLACKTV247NEWS.com Launches!
BTV247, Inc., the leading digital media company focused exclusively on black culture, today announced that it has begun airing the nation's only daily black...
Zimbabwe: Police question journalists
Feluna Nleya and Jennifer Dube reporters with the privately owned Standard weekly were on 31 April 2010 questioned by police from the Law and...
Intensive Two-Year Training Offered in Science Journalism
The World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) is offering intensive
two-year training in science journalism for journalists in Africa and the
Arab world. Training is available...
Morocco: Environmental journalist sentenced to two years in prison for exposing illegal cedar trafficking ring
Mohammed Attaoui, a correspondent for the Arabic daily "Al-Monataf", president of a local environmental NGO and an employee with the rural municipality of Tounfite,...
Sharia Court bans online discussion of amputation
On 22 March 2010, Justice Lawal Muhammed of Magajin Gari Sharia Court in Kaduna, North-western Nigeria banned the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, a...
IPI welcomes launch of VOA satellite broadcasts
Voice of America (VOA) began satellite broadcasts of its Amharic-language programs to Ethiopia this week after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi ordered that VOA's...
Zimbabwe: Journalist detained at border post
Freelance journalist Nunurai Jena was on 21 March 2010 detained by security officials at Beitbridge Border Post on his way home from South Africa.
Jena...
Swaziland Public Broadcasting Bill 2010 finalized
The Government of Swaziland is currently finalizing a Bill that will see current state broadcasters, Swazi TV and the national radio station, Swaziland Broadcasting...
Ethiopia: Repression Rising Ahead of May Elections
Human Rights Watch is pleased to invite you to the launch of a new report, "'One Hundred Ways of Putting Pressure': Violations of...
CPJ urges Morocco to halt politically motivated prosecutions
In a letter, CPJ decries Morocco's use of the courts to suppress freedom of expression and prosecute journalists and urges the government to release...
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Detains Media Director Overnight
Ahmed Omar Salihi, a Director of Markabley Radio in Bardhere town and head of NUSOJ Southwest Branch was arrested by Al Shabaab group on...
UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators discussed at workshop in Swaziland
A workshop took place yesterday in Mbabane (Swaziland) to present UNESCO's Media Development Indicators to decision makers from the Swaziland Ministry of Broadcasting and...
ESSENCE Announces Retirement of Esteemed Beauty & Cover Director Mikki Taylor
Today, ESSENCE announces the retirement of its esteemed Beauty & Cover Director, Mikki Taylor. Taylor, who celebrated her 30-year anniversary with ESSENCE on February...
African Radio Stations take on the world
It has finally happened. A Sub-Saharan radio station is streaming live on the Internet in CD quality. Why did it take so long? The...
Liberian Children take to the airwaves on International Children’s Day of Broadcasting
Amidst a celebratory atmosphere and fanfare, over 60 Liberian children took over UNMIL Radio airwaves on this year's International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB)...
Ethiopia: Aid money spent on weapon is “Palpable Nonsense”
British charities have rubbished reports by the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC that aid money in Ethiopia was spent on weapons during the civil war....
Journalists Kidnapped in Niger Delta: IPI Urges Immediate Release
Three journalists from the African sports network M-Net SuperSport were kidnapped in the Niger Delta Region on Monday, but one has since escaped from...
In Zimbabwe, courthouse filming lands journalist in jail
A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested today for the third time this year, this time for taking footage of prisoners outside a courthouse in...
Journalist Beaten By Guards in Semi-Autonomous Somalia Region of Puntland
A Somali correspondent was allegedly beaten by court security guards last Wednesday in Puntland, the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, according to a 25 February...
Three Rwandan journalists sentenced to prison
Three journalists were sentenced to prison on Monday in Rwanda over a story reporting on an extramarital affair between the mayor of the capital,...
Eritrea: Radio Bana journalist in solitary confinement a year after her arrest
Reporters Without Borders has just learned from credible Eritrean sources that journalist and essayist Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu has been held in solitary confinement for...
Ethiopia: Open letter to Prime Minister to pursue press reforms
His Excellency Meles Zenawi
Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mr. Prime Minister,
We are writing to draw your attention to conditions that...
Cameroonian security agents detain 2 journalists
Security agents in Cameroon have detained two journalists since Friday in an apparent effort to learn the source of a purported memo from the...
Morocco: The sorry state of freedom
The head of Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Aboubakeur Jamai, Wednesday announced his decision to go into exile in protest against the closure of his newspaper....
Morocco: Blogger Boubaker Al-Yadib sentenced to six months in prison
On 2 February 2010, a Guelmim court sentenced blogger Boubaker Al-Yadib to six months in prison and a fine of 500 dirhams (approx. US$62)...
Journalist flees Zimbabwe after death threat
Freelance journalist Stanley Kwenda, a contributor to the private weekly The Zimbabwean, fled the country on Friday after he said he received a telephone...
South Africa in Media Row
The two men were wielding guns and preparing to unleash terror on the nation. With their faces obscured, they were apparently loading their guns...