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Africa: African journalists On the Throes of Insecurity
Harassment of journalists is gradually but steadily becoming the trend in Africa. In fact, the Federation of African journalists (FAJ), the African regional affiliate of the International Federation of journalists (IFJ), is extremely disturbed and concerned by the growing tendency towards enactment and enforcement of more repressive, complicated and legal sanctions against [detalii...]
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Somalia: journalists Under Fire in 2011
The National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ) today declares that the year 2011 was characterized by the worst possible perilous conditions in which journalists operate in Somalia, as journalists were deliberately singled out for cruel and unjust [detalii...]
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Africa: Somali journalists Killed With Impunity
Somalia is the worlds second most murderous country for journalists, says the New York-based Committee to Protect journalists [detalii...]
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Burundi: journalists Protest Treason Charges
The Federation of African journalists (FAJ), the International Federation of journalists (IFJ) and the Eastern Africa journalists Association (EAJA), have expressed deep concern about the campaign of intimidation against media by the government of Burundi and have called for charges against a leading journalist to be [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Jubilations as Kidnapped journalists Regain Freedom
It was tragicomedy for families of the four kidnapped journalists and indeed Nigerian journalists on Sunday when news feted in that they have been [detalii...]
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Africa: International journalists Condemn Intimidation
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) denounced today the frequent threats and intimidations against the journalists in [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: Release Swedish journalists Immediately
Following Ethiopian state televisions broadcast of a clip presenting jailed and injured Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye as accomplices to terrorists, the Committee to Protect journalists calls on Ethiopia to immediately release the two [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Police Rescue Kidnapped journalists
Police have rescued the four journalists and their driver who were abducted last week. Uncomfirmed reports say the journalists are on their way to Umuahia, the Abia state [detalii...]
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Africa: Local Environmental journalists Form New Federation
The African Federation of Environmental journalists (AFEJ) comes after online consultations among the African environmental journalists particularly for those who are the members of the International Federation of Environmental journalists (IFEJ). It aims to unite African affiliates of the International Federation of Environmental journalists to better meet challenges faced by the people of Africa across the [detalii...]
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Africa: IFJ Joins Federation of African journalists Press Freedom Day Call for Release of journalists
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today joined its African group, the Federation of African journalists (FAJ) to mark World Press Freedom Day by sending a letter to President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea, urging him to release all journalists detained by his [detalii...]
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Uganda: Four journalists Beaten by Police, Camera Confiscated
Barely a week after more than a dozen journalists were subjected to police and military brutality, police launched another attack against four [detalii...]
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Cameroon: IFJ Joins Condemnation of Mindless Violence Against journalists
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today joined its African group, the Federation of African journalists (FAJ), in condemning the brutal attack and subsequent arrests journalists who were covering a demonstration in the Buea area called by supporters of a movement seeking greater autonomy for the region formerly known as West [detalii...]
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Swaziland: Prince Threatens journalists With Death
The Committee to Protect journalists condemns death threats and outrageous claims made last week by a member of Swazilands royal family against local journalists over their critical coverage of the countrys [detalii...]
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North Africa: journalists Continue to Be Targeted in Somaliland
autonomous republic of Somaliland are obstructing independent journalists from covering government politics, the Committee to Protect journalists said today. Four reporters have been harassed and arrested while on assignment since early [detalii...]
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Eritrea: journalists Call on Afewerki to Release Detainees
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today joined its African group, the Federation of African journalists (FAJ) to mark World Press Freedom Day by sending a letter to President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea, urging him to release all journalists detained by his [detalii...]
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Ghana: journalists Condemn Prosecutions
The National Executive Committee of the Ghana journalists Association (GJA) on July 23, 2010 called on the Ghana police to use constitutional mechanisms to address grievances and complaints they may have against journalists and the [detalii...]
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Nigeria: NUJ - Why journalists Are Yet to Be Freed
The national secretariat of Nigeria Union of journalists (NUJ) has attributed certain processes that must be accomplished to secure the release of the four kidnapped journalists unhurt to why their captors have not released [detalii...]
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Uganda: Police Urged to Quickly Probe Death of journalists
THE Uganda journalists Union (UJU) has called upon the Police to speed up investigations into the murder of the two journalists who were killed in the line of [detalii...]
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Egypt: journalists Targeted By Police Violence, Arrests
Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns police use violence against journalists covering Egypts street protests. It is hard to establish exactly how many journalists have been arrested or physically attacked by police officers in the past 48 hours. According to the latest information obtained by Reporters Without Borders, more than a dozen journalists have been [detalii...]
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Mozambique: Media Council Slams Violence Against journalists
Mozambiques Supreme Mass Media Council (CSCS) has warned that despite the achievements of the countrys journalists there are still violations of the Press Law characterised by attacks on [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: Call for Dismissal of Terror Charges Against journalists
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today urged the authorities to drop accusations of terrorist activities leveled at five journalists including two Swedish reporters whose trial was due to start yesterday in Addis Ababa but was adjourned until 20 October [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Kidnapped journalists Released to Tell of Ordeal
The four journalists kidnapped last week in Abia State returned to the warm embrace of their colleagues yesterday at exactly 7.50pm at the Lagos State secretariat of the Nigerian Union of journalists (NUJ) in Alausa, [detalii...]
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East Africa: IFJ Pledges Continued Support for journalists
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) has pledged to continue supporting journalists unions in Eastern Africa as they build the capacity to defend press freedom and fights for the rights of their [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: Authorities Charge Six journalists With Terrorism
A judge in Ethiopias federal high court charged six journalists with terrorism on Thursday under the countrys antiterrorism law, bringing the number of journalists charged under the statute since June to 10, CPJ research [detalii...]
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Burundi: Stop Menacing the Media - Government Threatening journalists With Legal Action
Burundi government officials should halt their intensifying pressure on journalists, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect journalists said today. In the last few weeks, journalists have been summonsed by state prosecuting authorities for questioning with increasing frequency in response to radio broadcasts implicating state agents in alleged human rights [detalii...]
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Uganda: More Attacks on journalists During Local Elections
Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the physical attacks on seven journalists in two separate incidents during yesterdays municipal and district elections as well as the attacks on two other journalists during 18 Februarys general [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Police Detain journalists Leader
The International Federation of journalists has condemned the arrest and detention by police in Zimbabwe of Dumisani Sibanda, the President of the Zimbabwe Union of [detalii...]
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Somalia: Nusoj Annual Review of Crimes Against journalists
The National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ) declares today that the year 2011 was characterized by the worst possible perilous conditions for journalists operating in Somalia, as they were deliberately singled out for cruel and unjust [detalii...]
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Uganda: 1000 journalists Attacked in Uganda in 2011 - Report
[Independent] Over 1000 journalists were in 2011 attacked in Uganda according to the new Human Rights Network for journalists report (HRNJ). The number is a huge leap compared to 58 journalists who were attacked in 2010 and 38 who were attacked in [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: journalists Spruce Up Orphanage
journalists on Friday traded their pens for brooms and paint brushes as they helped spruce up an orphanage at Selous at an event organised by the Zimbabwe Union of journalists and the mining giant, [detalii...]
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Nigeria: journalists Protest Over Killings
Members of the Nigeria Union of journalists (NUJ) Abuja Council Saturday carried placards to protest the killings of journalists and insistent threats to their [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: IfJ Condemns Violent Arrest of Two Swedish journalists
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) and its European group, the Federation of European journalists (EFJ) today condemn in the strongest terms the violent arrest of two Swedish journalists in the Ogaden region on the border with Somalia. Photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye, were arrested on 27 June 2011 while reporting on the rebel movement, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which is fighting the Ethiopian government in the region. The two journalists were also injured after coming under fire from the Ethiopian [detalii...]
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Nigeria: NAICOM to Train journalists on Modern Accounting
To enable journalists understand the workings of the newly introduced International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and apply it in their news reports appropriately, the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has concluded plans to train journalists on the [detalii...]
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Somalia: Two journalists Arrested in Somaliland
The National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ) is calling on Somaliland authorities to end a new campaign of intimidation against journalists and free a detained newspaper reporter who has been in jail since 5 September 2011 in Buro town, Somaliland (northwestern [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Ten Newspapers Scribes Nominated for Awards
THE Zimbabwe Union of journalists yesterday unveiled finalists of the National journalists and Media Awards in which 10 journalists from Zimpapers were [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Police Arrest Six journalists
Police in Nigeria arrested six journalists and one staff member from independent daily The Nation on Tuesday concerning the publication of a purported private letter from former head of state Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan about administrators of government agencies, local journalists [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: Two journalists Detained, Held Without Charge
Ethiopian authorities have been holding a newspaper columnist incommunicado since Tuesday, local journalists told the Committee to Protect journalists. Reeyot Alemu, a regular contributor to the independent weekly Feteh, was expected to spend the next four weeks in preventive detention under what appears to be Ethiopias sweeping anti-terrorism [detalii...]
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Somalia: Offices of journalists Union Robbed By Armed Men, Staff Threatened
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today condemned the raid and robbery at the main office of its Somalia affiliate, the National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ) as well as continued threats against members and the leadership of the [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: SLAJ Ends Child Rights Training for journalists
The Sierra Leone Association of journalists has concluded four two-day training programmes for 100 journalists throughout the country with funds totalling Le65 million provided by the United Nations childrens agency, [detalii...]
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Somalia: NUSOJ Outraged Over Live Radio Broadcast That Exposed journalists to Danger
[IFEX] 28 January 2012 - The National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ) is deeply concerned over the danger journalists in Mogadishu have been exposed to through the activities of UN-funded Radio Bar Kulan (RBK). Unbeknownst to the journalists present, the station aired live discussions between them and the Force Commander (FC) of African Union peacekeeping troops in Mogadishu [detalii...]
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Eritrea: Authorities Detain More journalists on Vague Terrorism Accusations
Authorities in Ethiopia arrested two independent journalists this week on accusations of involvement in a terrorism plot, bringing the total number of journalists imprisoned since June under the countrys far-reaching antiterrorism legislation to six, CPJ research [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: More journalists Get Jail Time On Anti-Terrorism Charges
[IFEX] In another sign of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawis worsening repression, a U.S.-based journalist was sentenced to life in prison on anti-terrorism charges, while two other journalists were given heavy prison sentences, report the Ethiopian Free press journalists Association (EFJA), the Committee to Protect journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute (IPI) and other IFEX [detalii...]
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Malawi: journalists Beaten and Detained to Prevent Them Covering Protests
Reporters Without Borders condemns police violence against at least seven journalists covering protests that took place in several cities during the past two days. Some of the journalists were briefly detained. The government expressly banned radio stations from covering the [detalii...]
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Angola: journalists Commitment to Combating HIV/Aids Recognised
The civic role played by journalists in divulging matters related to HIV/Aids was recognised on Tuesday in Caxito city in the northern Bengo province by executive director of Angolan journalists Association to fighting against the disease, Helle [detalii...]
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Sudan: Security Forces Hound journalists Who Cover Their Abuses
Reporters Without Borders condemns a campaign of harassment that Sudans security forces are waging against journalists in an attempt to silence media criticism. At their request, the attorney general questioned three journalists who drew attention to their mistreatment of human rights activists, including cases of [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: IFJ Condemns Jail Term Handed Down to Swedish journalists
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) has condemned the jail sentences which were handed down today by a judge in Addis Ababa to Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan [detalii...]
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Somalia: Lives and Rights of journalists Under Threat
Shabelle (Mogadishu)-The National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ) today unveiled its Annual Report on the state of press freedom. The report is the result of extensive and systematic monitoring and documentation of incidents of attacks on journalists and media organisations in Somalias south-central regions, and in territories controlled by Puntland and [detalii...]
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Burundi: Urgent Call to Free Journalist Facing Life in Prison
The Federation of African journalists (FAJ), the International Federation of journalists (IFJ) and the Eastern Africa journalists Association (EAJA), have expressed deep concern about the campaign of intimidation against media by the government of Burundi and have called for charges against a leading journalist to be [detalii...]
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Africa: Hurrah!!! SLAJ Boss Leads Continental Campaign
SLAJ President Umaru Fofana is to lead the campaign by African journalists to have the Freedom of Information Law in all countries of the continent. He was unanimously appointed last week by his colleagues at the leaderships of the Federation of African journalists (FAJ) and the West African journalists Association [detalii...]
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Nigeria: NUJ Warns Against Harassment of journalists
Chairman of the Nigeria Union of journalists (NUJ) Imo State Council, Mr.Fidel Onyeneke has warned against harassment of journalists in the [detalii...]
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Africa: 102 journalists Killed in 2010 - Report
A total of 102 journalists were killed in 2010, eight fewer than the year before, a media watchdog said yesterday. The year was the second bloodiest since International Press Institutes Death Watch records began in 1997, behind only 2009, which saw 110 deaths.In Asia, 40 reporters were slain, making it the most dangerous region in the world for journalists. Latin America was next with 32 journalists killed according to the International Press Institute in its yearly World Press Freedom [detalii...]
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Somalia: journalists Harassed, Arrested in Mogadishu, Somaliland And Puntland
Reporters Without Borders is baffled by the hostility that the authorities are showing towards [detalii...]
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Africa: IFJ Journalism in Shadow of Terror Laws Conference Urges Restoration of journalists Role in Terrorism Discourse
journalists need to claim back their role in the discourse about terrorism and refuse to remain side-lined by the rhetoric of national security which has been used to stifle scrutiny of governments policies following the 9/11 attacks in the US. The call was made at the opening of the Anti-Terror laws Conference organised by the International Federation of journalists (IFJ) and its European group, the Federation of European journalists [detalii...]
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Cameroon: journalists Mourn Death of Press Freedom Icon
The Federation of African journalists (Faj), the African regional organization of the International Federation of journalists (Ifj), has learnt with deep sorrow the sudden and untimely death of prominent Cameroonian journalist and press freedom defender, Pius [detalii...]
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Nigeria: journalists Describe Kidnap Ordeal
Four journalists that were ambushed and kidnapped last Sunday have narrated how they ran into armed gunmen along Ikot-Ekpene-Aba [detalii...]
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Namibia: Namibian journalists Get Slapped with Dress Code
journalists recently got a salty wet slap in the face, when a directive from State House landed in their [detalii...]
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Congo-Kinshasa: Call to Ruling Party Politicians After Attacks On journalists
Reporters Without Borders strongly supports the "march of anger" by journalists and press freedom activists that its partner organization, Journalist in Danger, is organizing today in Kinshasa to condemn physical and verbal violence against journalists and to send politicians a strong signal of their determination to defend their profession and freedom of [detalii...]
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Tunisia: Pledge to Free Press Vindicates journalists Struggle, Says IFJ
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the pledge from Tunisian President Ben Ali to allow press freedom and to end internet censorship, saying the move vindicates the long-running campaign for independence by journalists led by the Syndicat national des journalistes tunisiens (SNJT), an IFJ [detalii...]
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Africa: IFJ Welcomes British Foreign Secretarys Support for Fully Independent Inquiry Into journalists Murder
[IFJ] The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates, the National Union of journalists of Great Britain and Ireland, and the National Union of Somali journalists (NUSOJ), today called on the British Foreign Secretary William Hague to ensure that the "independent inquiry" he called for into the murder of Hassan Osman Abdi, director of Shabelle Media Network, is truly [detalii...]
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Africa: Women journalists Call for Solidarity to Overcome Inequality in Media
Leading women journalists in Africa called for solidarity among journalists, men and women, to effect a durable change and achieve greater fairness in the profession. The call was made during the second day of the All African Conference on Gender and Equality in Media taking place in the Rwandan capital, [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Freedom for Abducted journalists Likely Today
INSPECTOR-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, yesterday, ordered the Abia and Akwa Ibom commands to fish out abductors of the journalists in the [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: Wetlands International Africa, journalists Tour Tombo and Fogbo
As part of their training of journalists on cross learning dialogue on climate change adaptation, Wetlands International Africa (WIA) on Tuesday took journalists on a tour of Tombo and Fogbo communities in the Western Rural district of the capital where the organisation is undertaking some [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Freed journalists Arrive Lagos, Recount Experiences
LAGOS CHAIRMAN of Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of journalists, NUJ, Mr. Wahab Oba, and three other journalists: Mr. Adolphus Okonkwo, Sylva Okereke, Shola Oyeyipo, with their driver, Mr. Azeez Abdulraf, kidnapped by gunmen at Umuafouka junction, near Ukwakiri, in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, a week ago, regained their freedom, [detalii...]
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Rwanda: journalists Acquire Health Reporting Skills
Over 40 journalists from various media houses are undergoing training in how to report on health [detalii...]
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Africa: The FAJ Calls On African Governments to End Impunity
On this day when the whole world is celebrating the International Day Against Impunity for crimes committed against journalists, the Federation of African journalists (FAJ),the African group of the International Federation of journalists (IFJ), calls on the African Union and governments to take bold initiatives in order to end the unbearable impunitythe perpetrators of the worst crimes against journalists enjoy in Africa. Indeed, in several African countries, the violence and intolerance against [detalii...]
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Rwanda: journalists Receive Skills in HIV Reporting
About 60 journalists yesterday completed a two-day training on how to report on the HIV/ Aids [detalii...]
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Uganda: journalists Petition UN Over Right to Expression
A journalists body has petitioned the United Nations over what it called the failure by government to protect, uphold and promote their right to freedom of [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Police Block journalists from Marching
Police in Bulawayo and Masvingo have blocked belated World Press Freedom Day marches by journalists in the [detalii...]
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Ethiopia: Govt Steps Up Terrorism Allegations Against journalists
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi last week accused journalists in the country of being "messengers" with "terrorist" groups, while a state newspaper accused the chief editor of an independent publication of having terrorist ties and called on security forces to "take action" against him. The Committee to Protect journalists today said it condemns this campaign of intimidation against the private [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Smart Adeyemi to Support NUJ On Abuja journalists Village
Former president of the Nigeria Union of journalists (NUJ), Senator Smart Adeyemi, has assured journalists in Abuja that he would support the union in actualising its plan of inaugurating a housing scheme for journalism professionals in the nations capital [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: Civil War Over But War Against journalists Continues
President of the Sierra Leone Association of journalists, Umaru Fofana says the civil war in Sierra Leone may have ended eight years ago but that there was a sustained war against the countrys [detalii...]
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Burundi: IFJ Joins Call for Release of Journalist On Treason Charges
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today backed the call by the Federation of African journalists (FAJ) and the Eastern Africa journalists Association (EAJA) for the release of journalist Jean Claude Kavumbagu whose trial for treason and defaming the Burundian army was heard for the first time on Wednesday 13 April in the capital, [detalii...]
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Uganda: Violence Againsts journalists Grows
At least 55 journalists suffered various forms of violence at the hands of security operatives and political party supporters over the last six months, a new report [detalii...]
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Africa: FAJ Holds Conference on Gender Equality and Media in Kigali
An all-African conference on Gender and Media opened today in Kigali, Rwanda, to debate ways of redressing challenges facing African female journalists at the workplace across Africa. The three day conference Empowering African Women journalists: Stepping Up to the Challenge of Gender Equality is organised by the Federation of African journalists (FAJ) with the support the International Federation of journalists (IFJ), the Ministry of Information of Rwanda and the Norwegian Foreign [detalii...]
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Africa: 2011 Tumultuous Year for Media
Sixty-six journalists were killed this year according to Reporters Without Borders. More than 1000 were arrested. Syria, Egypt and Libya are among the most dangerous countries for [detalii...]
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Somalia: 7 journalists Arrested in a Week, 3 Still Held - Somaliland
CPJ (New York)-The Committee to Protect journalists is alarmed by the recent spate of arrests of independent reporters in the semi-autonomous republic of [detalii...]
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Western Sahara: Spanish journalists Under Fire From Morocco
The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) today called on the Moroccan authorities to lower the temperature of its criticism of Spanish media which have been accused of being hateful and [detalii...]
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South Africa: Sanef Protests Arrest of Sowetan journalists
The SA National Editors Forum (Sanef) on Tuesday added its voice to those condemning police for arresting two journalists while they were carrying out normal reporting [detalii...]
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Uganda: journalists Arrested Over Extortation
TWO journalists from the Daily Monitor and Kabozi Kubiiri Radio, were arrested on Monday for allegeding extorting sh1.5m from the National Water and Sewerage Company (NWSC) boss Apollo [detalii...]
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Sudan: UN Decries Jailing of journalists
The United Nations (UN) has strongly condemned the prison sentences slapped last month on two Sudanese female journalists for speaking out against the alleged rape of a female activist by the countrys security [detalii...]
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Kenya: journalists Union Condemns Raid On Magazine
Eastern Africa journalists Association (EAJA) has condemned last weekends raid at the offices of the Nairobi Law Monthly during which crucial documents including computers were [detalii...]
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Mozambique: Angola Apologises for Mistreatment of journalists
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has formally apologised to the Mozambican authorities for the ill-treatment of two Mozambican journalists who were denied entry to the country in [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: No Respite in Harassment of journalists
THE harassment of Zimbabwean journalists continued last week when detectives descended on the offices of a weekly newspaper that exposed a massive land scandal involving a controversial businessman and a Zanu PF government [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Citizen journalists First With the News
THE days when reporting news was preserved for an elite circle of journalists are long gone, and they have been replaced by a new animal - the citizen [detalii...]
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Kenya: African journalists Feted At Media Conference
Nation Media Group on Thursday evening feted some of the continents courageous and dedicated journalists over the [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: journalists Reject Forced Leave
journalists from The Mail newspaper, which suspended operations last week, have challenged the publishers decision to send them on forced [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Five Newspaper journalists Arrested
Nigerian police on Tuesday arrested five senior journalists and two other officials of a Lagos-based private newspaper, the daily said in a [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Supreme Court Urged to Overturn journalists Convictions
Legal obligations on freedom of expression and overturn the convictions of two journalists for speech-related [detalii...]
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Rwanda: Three journalists Arrested in the Space of a Week
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of three journalists in the space of a week in Kigali. Two were released yesterday morning but the third one is still [detalii...]
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Uganda: journalists Body Wants Anti Media Bill Dropped
The Committee to Protect journalists (CPJ) has asked the government to withdraw the proposed amendment to the 1995 Ugandan Press and Journalist Act, saying it will undermine the countrys achievements as a free and open [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Police Arrest Four Suspects Over journalists Kidnap
Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, has said that four persons have been arrested in connection with the abduction of four [detalii...]
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FIFA invites journalists to be linesmen for a day
Johannesburg, - journalists at the World Cup are to be given the chance to be linesmen in a FIFA initiative in Pretoria on [detalii...]
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Zambia: Two journalists Held After Covering Demonstrations
Reporters Without Borders today condemns the detention by police in Zambia of two journalists working for an independent newspaper and a local radio, apparently because of their displeasure at their coverage of a secessionist movement in the west of the [detalii...]
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Cameroon: journalists Urged To Promote Tourism
journalists from the public and private media houses have been called upon to encourage efforts undertaken by government and professionals to promote the tourist industry in [detalii...]
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London 2012 Olympics: Mayor Boris Johnson set to offer journalists facilities hub
Mayor of London has reserved media space for thousands of journalists who do not have official Olympic [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: The Attacks On Sports journalists Must Stop!
James Fofanah popularly known as Jay Jay, an official of one of the fourteen Premier League clubs in Sierra Leone Mighty Blackpool is in the habit of harassing and molesting Sports journalists in Sierra Leone who he believes are critics of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA). This tall lanky fellow sometimes physically attacks these sports journalists and he even sometimes does the same thing to other people who say things against the [detalii...]
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Liberia: West African Media Group Condemns Attacks Against journalists
The West African journalists Association (WAJA) has joined its affiliate the Press Union of Liberia(PUL) in condemning the arson attack on Love FM, and the intimidation and threats against journalists. In a press release, WAJA said it stands by the PUL demand for the police to launch an immediate investigation to bring the executors of the arson attack on Love FM and all other elections related violence against the journalists to book. "We condemn the threats against Smith Toby and Patrick Honnah," said WAJA President Mohamed Garba whilst calling for an end to such unnecessary friction and harassment which could further fan the flames of election [detalii...]
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Cote dIvoire: journalists Tortured, Says Lawyer
Two Ivorian journalists have been tortured and are now being illegally held in custody in Abidjan, according to their lawyer. Aboubakar Sanogo and Charles Kangbe were arrested last Friday by men in military [detalii...]
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Zimbabwe: Minister Threatens Press With Jail Over Leaks
A Zimbabwean minister who threatened to jail journalists should retract his statement and honor an agreement to implement media reform, the Committee to Protect journalists said [detalii...]
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Libya: Wave of Arrests of journalists Who Urged Return of Opposition Figures
Reporters Without Borders today strongly condemned a wave of arrests by Libyas secret services of around 30 journalists that began on 5 November [detalii...]