South Africa journalists rebel over broadcaster’s ban The South African Broadcasting Company has taken disciplinary action against seven journalists after an internal rebellion over a new policy barring...
Controversial trials of Somaliland journalists delayed The controversial trials of three journalists in a breakaway province of Somalia have been postponed amid criticism of recent legal action by...
Death sentence upheld for Mauritania blogger An appeals court in the West African nation of Mauritania has upheld the death sentence of a blogger convicted of apostasy for an article critical of...
French station barred from reporting on Chad vote French station TV5 Monde has been banned from filming in the central African nation of Chad after journalists from the station had their camera...
Newspaper latest casualty in Somaliland crackdown Somaliland's government has ordered the closure of a newspaper, part of a renewed effort to silence critics in an autonomous region of Somalia once...
Shabab press officer sentenced in deaths of 6 Somali journalists A Somali military court has sentenced a former journalist turned media officer for a radical Islamist militant group to death for his role in the...
Guinea journalist shot to death in opposition dispute A Guinean journalist died after being shot during a physical altercation between opposing political parties in Conakry, the capital of the...
As election looms, Djibouti detains and releases 2 journalists Security forces in the tiny east African nation of Djibouti have detained and released two local journalists as political tensions rise ahead of...
Mogadishu car bomb kills Somali journalist A car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu has killed a broadcast journalist who was the widow of another reporter killed three years earlier in a...
Zimbabwe police arrest journalist for filming a protest Zimbabwean police have arrested and charged a freelance journalist who was covering a protest against President Robert Mugabe's government in the...
