Month: September 2018
Somali authorities detain radio journalist
Intelligence personnel in Somalia have reportedly detained a radio journalist, Mohamed Abdiwali Tohow without charge on allegations of spreading “false news.” Tohow was arrested Wednesday September…
Unknown Attackers kill Puntland Journalist
Police in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia, have been instructed to investigate the killing of Abdirisak Said Osman, a reporter and photographer with the…
Uganda: Eight journalists arrested for covering Bobi Wine’s return
Police in Uganda have reportedly detained at least eight journalists covering the return of opposition member of parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine,…
Court sets jailed Nigerian journalist free
By Muhammad Bah An Abuja magistrate’s court today struck out a case against Jones Abiri, publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Weekly Source, saying the court does…
Remembering the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike
By Andy Piascik One hundred years ago, in the dead of a Massachusetts winter, the great 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike—commonly referred to as the “Bread…
Rev. Dennis Dillon’s Ministry of Global African Economic Empowerment
By Ora Burke Black economic empowerment in the tradition of Marcus Garvey is a concept many in our global African communities talk about — but…
New Lands Minister on the Rampage in Sierra Leone
By Theophilus Sahr Gbenda Sierra Leone’s new Minister of Lands, Dr. Dennis Sandy is on the rampage in Sierra Leone as he reclaims, what he…
Opposition politicians kidnap, beat Ghanaian journalist
Members of an opposition political party in Ghana have been accused of kidnapping and beating Jerry Azanduna, a journalist working for the Ghana News Agency…
