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(MFWA/IFEX) - The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja, Nigeria has issued a hearing notice for a suit filed against the Republic of Gambia by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) on behalf of a "disappeared" Gambian journalist, Chief Ebrima Manneh, reporter of pro-government Banjul-based "Daily Observer" newspaper. This follows an...

Nepal’s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has pledged to preserve monarchy in the country if the present king Gyanendra and Prince Paras voluntarily quit their throne. Speaking Sunday to Pakistani journalists in kathmandu, Koirala expressed his inner desire to protect monarchy even if the coming Constituent Assembly decides not to keep it. When his remarks were highlighted by national media in...

KHAIRPUR: Reporters without Borders on Tuesday voiced revulsion at the murder of Noor Ahmed Solangi, correspondent for the Sindhi-language newspaper, Khabroon, in Kingri. Ahmed Solangi, 34, died in a hail of nine bullets after he was ambushed by six people on motorbikes and armed with Kalashnikovs, who shot him at point blank range as he was distributing newspapers on 17 June. "We are shocked by...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is appalled by news that only weeks after the Nepal 1 TV strike for better working conditions was resolved, eight Delhi-based employees have been forced to resign due to threats and pressure from television management. According to the statement issued by the television's employees union on June 12, journalists Chranjivi Devkota, Rajendra Khanal...

HAMAS openly named the group holding the kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston for the first time yesterday - as family and colleagues prepared to mark the 100th day since his disappearance. Ahmed Youssef, an aide to the deposed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, said talks were being held with the Doghmush family, a violent clan with its own militia. Mr Youssef said he hoped...

Hamas militants have killed one of the Palestinian clansmen believed to be holding journalist Alan Johnston, it was reported. Channel 4 News said Hamas knew the group which was holding Mr Johnston and it shot one of them dead. His plight was highlighted in a series of vigils marking his 100th day in captivity. Fellow BBC employees showed their support for the correspondent, who was abducted on...

CAIRO,(SANA)- Arab Journalists Union Tuesday called the United Nation to press US occupation forces and the Iraqi government to offer more protection to journalists and face acts of killings and kidnappings in Iraq. In a statement issued in Cairo, Secretariat General of the Arab Journalists Union demanded the international organization to activate its resolutions in order to condemn the killing of...

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about a lawsuit brought by three descendants of “national heroes” against the opposition newspaper Svoboda Slova, demanding 6.5 million dollars in damages for an alleged “attack on the honour and dignity of their ancestors.” The suit, filed on 21 May, was prompted by a column by the newspaper’s editor, Yerbol Kurmanbayev, questioning whether Karasay...

Baghdad: Iraq is currently the most dangerous place for journalists to work. Since the war began, 231 journalists and media workers have died in the line of duty, while 15 others were killed in May - making it the deadliest month ever recorded. This month witnessed an unprecedented wave of violence against journalists. A journalist working with an Arab newspaper based in Baghdad told Gulf News...

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Josh Rushing has gone from Marine Corps spokesman (the role in which he appeared in the 2004 documentary ``Control Room'') to Washington-based reporter for Al Jazeera, known in some quarters as Osama bin Laden's favorite TV network. A profound conversion by most standards, though in his memoir ``Mission Al Jazeera'' Rushing argues it was a natural progression. A Texan who...