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 eleven days ago and handed him over to the military, which has since held him without access to his lawyer or family in Buea, the capital of the country’s English-speaking […]
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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 against freelance journalist Eric Kabendera and also account for the fate of missing journalist Azory Gwanda. Africanist Press publishes the letter as part of our support to the global demand for
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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 and commentator who has contributed to Senegalese and international news agencies including Kapital Afrik, Jeune Afrique, France24, TV5Monde, and Al-Jazeera, was arrested on July 29 at his home in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, by the police’s
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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 release them immediately, and to guarantee that journalists operating in southern Ethiopia can report freely. On the evening of July 18, security personnel in Hawassa, the capital of Ethiopia’s Southern
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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 citizenship status. Dar es Salaam police chief Lazaro Mambosasa said at a press conference today that Kabendera was in custody and that police arrested him after the journalist failed to obey a
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Seventeen Ministers from Africa’s largest energy producing nations, including countries such as Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Tunisia among others, have agreed to meet in Cape Town for this year’s Africa Oil Week taking place from 4-8 November 2019 to broker new partnerships for their energy sectors.The ministers will be using
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Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) may be coming to an end for thousands of Liberian Americans at the end of this month.
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Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should immediately take steps to ensure citizens have access to the internet and news outlets as the country awaits the results of its election, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The government has cut access to internet and SMS services, blocked the signals of at least two
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Conservationist groups in the United States brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday for not protecting giraffes via the country’s Endangered Species Act. The suit challenges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s refusal to act on a public petition from April 2017 seeking Endangered Species Act protection for giraffes. The agency is required
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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