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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has ordered a British journalist to leave the country within 24 hours, accusing him of portraying it in a bad light, state television said on Saturday. Anthony Mitchell, who worked for the Associated Press, was summoned to the foreign ministry and told to leave. "Anthony Mitchell has been asked to leave the country in the next 24 hours because of disseminating...

MAPUTO, Mozambique, Jan. 20 - Who killed Carlos Cardoso? After assassins gunned down Mr. Cardoso 62 months ago, ending his effort as a journalist to unravel a banking scandal here, the Nobel laureate Günter Grass and others made that question a rallying cry for justice, both for his murder and for Mozambique's corruption-ridden society. On Friday, in a sweltering Maputo courtroom, a judge handed...

WASHINGTON (CP) - The Pentagon charged a suspected al-Qaida terrorist Friday in connection with a March 2002 grenade attack in Afghanistan that severely injured Canadian journalist Kathleen Kenna. Abdul Zahir, the 10th prisoner at Guantanamo Bay to be charged, is facing counts of attacking civilians, conspiracy and aiding the enemy. No trial date has been set before a special military tribunal...

The siege of the state broadcaster RadioTélévision Ivoirienne (RTI) by several hundred Young Patriots was lifted Thursday night and normal programming resumed today, Reporters Without Borders has learned. Most employees were able to return to their posts and talks are under way to "identify the lessons to be drawn" from the events of the past few days, a source close to the management said. Some...

LUSAKA, 20 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - The Zambian media has largely ignored the drought that has left more than a million rural Zambians in need of food aid. Despite President Levy Mwanawasa's declaration of a national food crisis last year, when harvests failed in parts of southern, eastern and northern Zambia, the national broadcaster, the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), has not carried...

A Philippine court has sentenced a man to death for fatally shooting a photojournalist in 2004, officials said on Friday, according to Associated Press (AP). Allan Dizon, 30, a photographer for The Freeman newspaper, died hours after he was shot at close range outside a shopping mall in central Cebu city on Novemver 27, 2004. JUSTICE WILL BE DONE: Luli Arroyo, daughter of the philippines president

MAPUTO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A Mozambican court convicted a man on Friday for the November 2000 killing of journalist Carlos Cardoso and sentenced him to 30 years for a crime that threw the spotlight on corruption in the southern African country. "The judges consider the charges proven and therefore decide in the name of the Republic of Mozambique to condemn Anibal dos Santos Junior", judge Dimas...

19 January 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Tajikistan has suspended the local FM radio service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC. The move affects broadcasts in the capital Dushanbe and the northern city of Khujand. The BBC's services on medium and short wave are unaffected, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. The decision to suspend the service was made on 10 January and follows the adoption of a law...

"PAIN is temporary, film is forever." That hopeful thought, which found its way into the original script of Peter Jackson's recent re-make of "King Kong", might be seized upon by today's beleaguered entertainment industry. Media companies are suffering intense pain–and it is starting to seem worryingly permanent. In America shares of "old" media firms such as News Corporation, Comcast and other...

Poland has freed the journalist who started a three-month jail term on Monday, becoming the only person in the European Union serving a criminal sentence for libel. The constitutional court finally decided to suspend implementation of his prison sentence for libel and set him free. CENTRE OF ATTRACTION: Polish President Lech Kaczynski seen here during his swearing in ceremony in Warsaw, in