Month: August 2019
Detained Tanzanian journalist’s health worsens
Journalists in Tanzania have reported that detained journalist Erick Kabendera’s health is failing and the Tanzanian government has denied all requests by human rights groups…
Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo detained without charge
Human rights groups have asked Nigerian authorities to immediately release publisher Agba Jalingo and halt their harassment of journalists reporting on alleged corruption and other…
Cameroon detains news anchor Samuel Wazizi
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has today called on Cameroonian authorities to immediately release, without charge, pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi. Police arrested Wazizi…
CPJ writes Tanzania’s Magufuli to drop charges against Kabendera
The following is a letter sent to Tanzania’s president John Magufuli by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demanding that Tanzanian authorities drop all charges brought…
South Sudan continues its detention of Al-Watan editor
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on authorities in South Sudan to immediately release Michael Christopher, editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan, and halt its…
Senegalese journalist Adama Gaye arrested in Dakar
Authorities in Senegal should immediately release and drop all charges against journalist Adama Gaye, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Gaye, an independent journalist…
Ethiopia arrests journalists amid southern unrest
The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on authorities in Ethiopia to disclose the charges against three media workers from the Sidama Media Network or…
Tanzania detains freelancer Kabendera over ‘citizenship’
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Tanzanian authorities to immediately release freelance journalist Erick Kabendera, whom police said is being investigated over his…
Daughter of murdered Gambian journalist recalls her father’s death
By Angela Quintal At Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on July 22, army officer Lieutenant Malick Jatta named former President Yahya Jammeh as the mastermind behind the murder of…
