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Chad kicks out its only foreign correspondent
The Chadian government effectively forced the country's only permanent foreign correspondent to leave the country on Thursday after withdrawing her work permit without explanation,...
Editor on the run
The founder and editor of the private bimonthly newspaper Umuco went into hiding last Tuesday, a day before a police raid on his residence...
Arab Newspapers Win Awards in International Design Contest
The Dubai-based Gulf News and Emirates Business 24/7 newspapers were recently granted prizes in an international contest for newspaper design. A close collaboration between...
3rd African International Media Summit in Tunis
The 3rd edition of the annual African International Media Summit (AIMS) is scheduled to hold in Tunis, Tunisia, 27-30 March, the organisers said.
In a...
Cameroon: one TV and two Radio Stations closed in a week
Police in the capital, Yaoundé, have forced a popular radio station off the air and confiscated its equipment over commentary critical of the government...
Egypt : Where is the Press Headed?
The press plays an important role in shaping and guiding public opinion and thus controls the convictions of people and their reactions to events....
Brief report on the state of film industry in Kano State, Nigeria
Preamble. Motion picture industry in Northern Nigeria popularly known as Kannywood was founded in 1990 when the first Hausa home video titled "Turmin Danya"...
Cameroon : Two journalists held incommunicado after trying to photograph homes of top politicians
Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of Jean-Bosco
Talla, the deputy editor of the privately-owned weekly "Le Front", and one
of his reporters, Hervé Kémété. They...
Press situation deteriorated dramatically in 2007, shows NUSOJ annual report
Targeting Truth Tellers: Journalism in a Climate of Fear and Intimidation Annual Report of Press Freedom Violations.
The freedom of the press situation in Somalia...
CPJ urges Cote d’Ivoire to lift RFI suspension
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Ivorian authorities to immediately lift the indefinite suspension of the FM broadcasts of the...
Ethiopia blocks freed journalists from launching newspapers
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Ethiopian government to allow journalists in the country the right to publish...
Gabon : Two newspapers suspended
On 8 October 2007, the National Communication Council (Conseil national de la communication, CNC), Gabon's media regulatory body, suspended two newspapers: "La Nation", a...
Media rights NGO demands guaranteed freedom of expression
A media rights NGO on Tuesday called on the newly-inaugurated transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to use the current...