CPJ Press Release A story describing purported late-night outings involving President Abdoulaye Wade led authorities in the capital, Dakar, to arrest a (...)
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the heavy fines and six-month suspended prison sentences imposed by a court in Kaloum (a district of Conakry) on 13 (...)
A journalist who has been missing for more than a year was spotted at Gambia’s main hospital, reports Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), who has (...)
BBC reporter Alan Johnston(photo, left) thanked the international media on Wednesday for "keeping my story alive" during his nearly four months of (...)
A declaration on press freedom in Africa was recently approved by world media organizations and executives. The declaration, adopted on the eve of the (...)
Eritrean journalist Milkeas Mihreteab narrowly escaped arrest when his private newspaper office was raided by the authorities six years ago. He crossed (...)
ASALJIE - Position Statement on the abduction of BBC Journalist Allan Johnston. Following the surreptitious capture and incarceration of Alan Johnston, (...)
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 (...)
At least three journalists a month since 2001 have fled their country to escape violence, imprisonment, or harassment, the Committee to Protect Journalists (...)
A court in the Gambia’s capital, Banjul, last Tuesday fined a reporter for a now-banned newspaper in connection with a March 2006 story reporting the arrest (...)
PEC STATEMENT Geneva, May 2 (PEC news). On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day May 3, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) condemns in the (...)
By Abayomi Charles Roberts Alan Johnston’s next birthday is in less than a month, on May 17. Sadly, his family is worried about his life and health (...)
