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Has Kenya really moved on after election fiasco ?
Kenya's presidential elections fiasco made a prominent comeback this week in the newspaper headlines, as senior executives of the East African nation's disgraced electoral...
Ghanaian journalist held hostage for prying into traditional chief’s sexual affairs
On 28 July 2008, reporter Osei Kwame, of "Kumasi Mail", an independent weekly newspaper based in Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city, was detained and...
Founder of Windhoek Observer, Hannes Smith, dies at 75
Editor and founder of Namibia's Windhoek Observer, the country's oldest and largest circulating weekly, Hannes Smith, died Tuesday morning of alzheimer, drawing mixed emotions...
Young people arrested over facebook affair could be charged with attempt to topple gov’t
The arrest of dozens of young Egyptians over their use of Facebook was the highlight of local press during the week.
Government and opposition publications...
Respected Nigerian journalist, Alhaji Babatunde Jose, dies …
The man widely regarded as the Doyen of Nigerian journalism, Alhaji Babatunde Jose, died on Saturday at the age of 82, the News Agency...
John R. Bradley’s controversial book authorised to be sold in Egypt
The Egyptian government denied rumours that it had officially banned a book by a British journalist that is critical of Egyptian politics.
The book titled...
Cameroon : Ban on radio stations lifted but only just …
Cameroonian authorities have lifted a ban on three private broadcasters summarily closed in connection with their critical coverage in February, but police are withholding...
Ethiopian government moves to stifle and repress journalists legally
A global media freedom wat chdog, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Thursday decried press freedom violations in Ethiopia while calling on the...
Apologies from the man who announced Zambian president’s death and why he did it
THE person who allegedly tipped a South African radio station last week that Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa had died has apologised.
Zambia media reports today...
Rule of terror as the Gambia holds journalist for more than 730 days
A sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Monday decried "the continued detention of Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh", saying he...
Foreign literature classed in luxury goods category
Zimbabwe has imposed an import duty on the foreign press following concerns by Robert Mugabe’s government over "hostile foreign newspapers coming into Zimbabwe," state...
Cameroon : Journalists thrown into jail for reporting corruption
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today urged the
Cameroonian government to end the intimidation of journalists reporting on corruption scandals in the country after...
Africa’s bleeding media
In Africa, a continent where journalists are often caught between the battle lines, there is a lot of legislative ground to cover for the...
Egyptian police tortured bloggers
Egyptian authorities have released three bloggers, including Karim El Beheiri, who were arrested and detained following their coverage of demonstrations to protest rising prices...
Cameroonian journalists receive two suspicious police summons
Two journalists working for the Cameroonian private daily, Le Messager in Yaoundé, have been summoned to the police headquarters.
Marie Noëlle Guichi and Jean François...
Guinea officials interrupt radio interview
Government officials interrupt controversial radio interview and seize tape recordings.
SOURCE: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Accra
(MFWA/IFEX) - On 8 May 2008, the Director-General...
Egypt hosts ITU Telecom Africa conference
The 2008 edition of the ITU Telecom Africa conference has started off in Egypt, with about 200 companies from 45 nations attending.
The 12-15 May...
Egyptian gov’t blocks opposition web site ahead of telecom conference
Egypt's leading opposition movement, Kefaya's (Enough), web site has been blocked by the government-controlled T-Data internet provider. The nation's largest web company has been...
Sierra Leone gov’t closes opposition radio station
Sierra Leone's opposition "Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) Radio Unity FM 94.0 has unceremoniously gone off air.
The opposition Party accused the ruling All People's...
Hardcore racism in the French film industry
I am a French actress; I studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. I am a dub actor for theater plays, television and...
Egypt : Two killed and several journalists arrested
Nine Egyptian journalists, photographers and one cameraman were the latest arrests in the Northern Delta town of Mahalla Al Kubra, panapress reported from the...
Morocco : Mohamed Serraj attacked
The general secretary of the moroccan press national syndicate Mohamed Daw Serraj, (SNPM from its french acronym, Syndicat National de la Presse Maroccaine), is...
Moroccan journalists compared to “prisoners on parole”
A press conference organised by Rachid Nini, editorial director of the moroccan daily, Al Massae, on Monday, March 31 in Casablanca, was marked by...
Senegal : Police arrest 24 and raid tv station
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has strongly condemned the assault of a independent TV channel reporter, the raid against his station and the...
300 foreign journalists to cover elections
At least 300 foreign journalists have arrived in Zimbabwe to cover Saturday's crunch poll, according to Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu.
The Minister said Thursday that...
Draconian accreditation laws used to censor Zimbabwe elections
The Zimbabwean government is using journalist accreditation laws to prevent most major international media outlets and some local journalists from covering the country’s elections...
Zimbabwe: Journalists still harrashed
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Zimbabwean government's
refusal to allow several leading international news media to cover the 29
March 2008 general elections although it has...
6 month jail term for Egyptian editor
Egypt's leading Editor Ibrahim Eissa has been sentenced to six months in prison over a series of articles published by his Al Dustour newspaper...
Egyptian editor faces trial
Leading Egyptian Editor Ibrahim Eissa is to appear in court on Wednesday to face charges of publishing "fake news about the President's health'' which,...
Violent attack on cartoonist
Reporters Without Borders, Paris, has condemned an attack on "The Guardian" newspaper's cartoonist Obe Ess, who was hit by armed intruders in his home...