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Exposing Payroll Corruption: An Editorial Response to Sierra Leone’s Finance Ministry

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  By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, Mark Feldman & Patrick Mbullo We write this editorial in response to the press release issued by Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance after Africanist Press published an article titled “Payroll Corruption in Sierra Leone: The Ministry of Finance’s Scandalous Wage Bill” on March 1, 2020. The article […]

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Nigerian journalist Alex Ogbu dies at protest

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Human rights and press freedom organizations have asked Nigerian authorities to conduct a credible and transparent investigation into the death of journalist Alex Ogbu. The New York-based Committee to  Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday called on the Nigerian government to publicize the results of Ogbu’s autopsy, and hold those responsible for his death to account.

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250 Journalists jailed worldwide in 2019

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The Committee to Protect Journalists has  found that the number of journalists imprisoned for their reporting globally reached at least 250 in 2019 for the fourth consecutive year, with China and Turkey topping the list of the world’s leading jailers. As of December 1, 2019, the Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 250 journalists are in

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Nigeria, Ethiopia leading jailers of activist-journalists in Africa

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By Muthoki Mumo and Jonathan Rozen The ongoing detentions of Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo and Ethiopian editor Fekadu Mahtemework–the only journalists behind bars for their work in their countries, according to CPJ’s latest prison census–don’t tell the whole story of their governments’ crackdowns on freedom of expression. Investigations throughout 2019 to compile CPJ’s list of 250 journalists imprisoned

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The crackdown on Sahara Reporters continues in Nigeria

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The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) in New York and other human rights groups have called on Nigerian authorities to halt all efforts to intimidate journalists working with the Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news website headquartered in the United States. Sahara Reporters staff told CPJ their Nigerian bank account was frozen without advance notice in October, significantly hindering their

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CPJ launches 2019 #FreeThePress campaign

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The Committee to Protect Journalists today launched its annual #FreeThePress campaign to raise awareness of jailed journalists globally. The campaign will highlight the plight of several journalists via CPJ’s Instagram account. In dictatorships and developing democracies alike imprisonment has become an effective method to silence the press, with record numbers jailed globally in the past three

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Detained Tanzanian journalist’s health worsens

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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 to allow Kadendera access to a his own doctor. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today issued a statement expressing concerns over Kabendera’s health situation and called for

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Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo detained without charge

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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 issues of public interest. The latest demands follow the arrest on August 22 in Lagos of Agba Jalingo, the publisher of the online news outlet Cross River Watch.  Jalingo’s lawyer Attah Ochinke, and

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Cameroon detains news anchor Samuel Wazizi

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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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CPJ writes Tanzania’s Magufuli to drop charges against Kabendera

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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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