Kenya

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Kenyan police to stop harassing and threatening a journalist in Kisumu city, western Kenya. Last month, police threatened and briefly detained Justus Ochieng, a reporter for the privately owned daily The Star, in connection with a story he wrote that alleged criminal activity by police officers in the region, the journalist told CPJ. Ochieng told...

Four employees of the Wajir District Hospital attacked journalist Abdi Hassan Hussein at the hospital on Saturday, the reporter told New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Hassan, a reporter for the Wajir Community Radio Station in the far northeastern corner of the country, said he visited the hospital with three colleagues to investigate complaints from...

A Kenyan journalist named by the International Criminal Court as a key suspect in deadly post-poll unrest said Thursday he was shocked by the move weeks after interviewing and taking pictures of the court's prosecutor, Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported. Joshua arap Sang, who met Luis Moreno-Ocampo during his latest visit to Kenya earlier this month, is the only one among the six Kenyans...

Police in Kenya said Monday they had arrested a radio journalist on suspicion of links to a bombing in neighbouring Uganda which killed 76 people in July. Habib Suleiman, a presenter on Radio Salaam based in the coastal city of Mombasa, was arrested on Saturday and taken to Nairobi for questioning, regional police chief Leo Nyongesa said. "We have handed him over to the anti-terrorism police unit...