(Reuters) - Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead a local journalist working for the BBC in southern Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said. A Reuters witness said gunmen confronted Nasteh Dahir outside his home in the port of Kismayu before shooting him in the chest and stomach. He died soon afterwards in hospital. Here is a chronology of journalists who have been attacked in Somalia since a...
Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead a leading local journalist working for the BBC in southern Somalia on Saturday. A Reuters witness said gunmen confronted Nasteh Dahir Farah outside his home in the port of Kismayu before shooting him in the chest and stomach. He died soon afterwards in hospital. A group of armed men fired several shots at Farah as he made his way home from work, Paris-based...
Three Somali journalists have been awarded the prestigious Hellmann/Hammett award in recognition for their journalism while risking their lives and suffering terrible hardships in the midst of Somalia’s worsening armed conflict. Abdullahi Mohammed Hassan, founder of the Ayaamaha newspaper; Mohamed Amiin Sheik Adow, of Radio Shebelle; and Abdi Dhaqane Ciye, a cameraman for HornAfrik media, were...
Six-month prison sentences have been passed by a court in the southwestern city of Bulawayo on three South African drivers for “unauthorised possession of TV broadcast equipment.” “The Zimbabwean authorities stop at nothing to control and punish foreign news media and anyone else who is liable to draw attention to the disastrous situation in the Zimbabwe,” Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières...
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the methods being used by the Sudanese government to censor Khartoum-based newspapers. In the latest case early Monday, members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)—the political wing of the former rebel group in the south that is now part of a unity government—participated in a raid on the privately-owned Arabic-language daily Ajras Al...
Eight Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporations (ZBC) employees have been summarily sent on paid vacation leave for two months, letters written to them by the Head of Human Resources Benania Shumba in early June 2008 indicate, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has reported. The eight include senior employees at the State broadcaster, Robson Mhandu (Television Production General Manager)...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the Ugandan government to "clearly and publicly" respond to local media reports claiming it has set up a high-level government task force to investigate journalists and control the media. "We call on the government to respond clearly and publicly to these allegations," said Gabriel Baglo, the Director of the IFJ Africa Office. "The...
the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply troubled by the death of award-winning photojournalist Trent Keegan, whose body was found on Wednesday in a ditch in Nairobi, Kenya. Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Keegan was found with head injuries in a drainage trench along a central highway. Police have opened an inquest. "This is a devastating loss for...
Fabakary B Ceesay, a reporter with the opposition newspaper Foroyaa in the Gambia, was threatened with abduction and violence by an anonymous caller on May 20 and 21, according to the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). MFWA sources in the Gambia reported that the caller told Ceesay to stop writing articles critical of the government or "face the consequences." The calls came to Ceesay on two...
An award-winning New Zealand photo-journalist has been bashed to death and his body dumped in a drainage ditch in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Trent Keegan, in his early 30s, was based in the west of Ireland and had spent the past decade travelling around the world while developing his business, the Irish Independent newspaper reported. An internet site for freelance photographers said he had...
