The Zimbabwe Media Commission has decided to grant publishing licencs to The Daily News, the long-banned independent newspaper, and a handful of other publications, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Commission Chairman Godfrey Majonga announced on Wednesday that the licences would be issued immediately, marking the first time in nearly seven years that an independent daily...
A raid was conducted in Madagascar Saturday on the opposition radio station Fréquence Plus that resulted in the arrest of an opposition leader while he was on a live radio programme, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists. The soldiers injured three journalists and destroyed the station’s equipment in 67 Hectares, a district in the capital, Antananarivo...
Three gunmen shot dead veteran broadcast Somalian journalist Sheik Nur Mohamed Abkey on Tuesday evening as he was returning home from work at the state-run Radio Mogadishu, local journalists told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Gunmen abducted Abkey, left, near his residence in Wardhigley, southern Mogadishu, and shot him repeatedly in the head. Local journalists said they suspect...
Four journalists who covered the recent dismissal of the electoral commission chairman received anonymous death threats via text message on Wednesday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and news reports. The messages, sent from the same number, said the reporters would meet the fate of three slain Nigerian journalists. “We will deal with you soon. Remember Dele Giwa, Bayo Ohu...
The Ethiopian government detained last week two government TV journalists on allegations of misusing state property, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Editor Haileyesus Worku and reporter Abdulsemed Mohammed of Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency (ERTA) have not been formally charged since their arrests, according to local journalists. Friday, a magistrate extended their...
Three Nigerian journalists were killed in two separate incidents over the weekend. Muslim rioters killed two reporters working with a local Christian newspaper on Saturday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Also on Saturday, court reporter Edo Sule Ugbagwu, from the private daily The Nation was shot dead at his home by two gunmen, according to local journalists. "Reporting...
Newspaper editor Germain S Ngota Ngota, whose health deteriorated while he was incarcerated in Cameroon, has died, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The death certificate for Ngota, editor of the private bimonthly Cameroon Express, determined that the journalist died from a lack of medical attention in Kondengui prison in the capital, Yaoundé, according to editors Hilaire...
Rwanda’s Media High Council on Tuesday suspended two independent weeklies just months prior to presidential elections. At a press conference, attended only by state broadcasters and the pro-government radio station Contact FM, the Media High Council announced an immediate six month suspension of private local language weeklies, Umuseso and Umuvugizi. The council accused Umuseso of insulting the...
Al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia have banned all BBC broadcasts from the areas they control and confiscated the corporation’s FM transmitters and satellite dishes. Local journalists told the New York based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that Al-Shabaab issued a statement Friday announcing the immediate ban, claiming the BBC carried the “agenda of the crusaders” and “opposed an Islamic...
Following Monday’s murder of freelance cameraman Patient Chebeya in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for a renewed commitment from the government to solidly investigate and prosecute those who kill journalists. Armed men in military uniforms jumped Chebeya, around 10 p.m. as his wife let him in his house in the volatile eastern city of Beni...
