November 2018

Freeing the Snake: Protecting Idaho’s Wild Salmon

By: Jessica Colleen McDermott This article first appeared on ourpositiveplanet.com   Idaho’s wild salmon are headed towards extinction. This fact, though often ignored by politicians and government agencies, has been at the forefront of conservation groups’ work for decades. These groups form a coalition of non-profits strewn across the Western US with the singular, shared …

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The facade of press freedom in Magufuli’s Tanzania

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The facade of press freedom in Tanzania was exposed on Wednesday November 7 following the arrest of two journalists and press freedom campaigners, Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Quintal and Mumo were detained yesterday at their hotel in Dar es Salaam by …

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Radio journalist killed in Somalia

A Somali radio journalist, Abdullahi Mire Hashi has been killed by two unidentified gunmen in the town of Elasha Biyaha, some 17km from the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Reports say Abdullahi, the producer and host of a daily show broadcast on the privately owned radio station Darul Sunnah, was shot after attending afternoon prayers at a mosque near …

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