A female journalist Sylvanie Kiaku has been detained in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo on charges of criminal defamation. Kiaku, the editor of the privately owned weekly newspaper, La Percée was arrested on October 10, 2018 on her way home from work by officers of Kinshasa’s judicial police after an arrest warrant was issued […]
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah A recent report published by Citizen Lab has revealed that Pegasus, a spyware created for mobile devices, may have been deployed against a range of journalists and civil society actors in over 45 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, Togo, Israel, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. The report states that
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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 privately owned radio station Codka Nabada. A statement from the Media Association of Puntland (MAP) and Codka Nabada say Abdirisak died on September 19 in the city of Galkayo while receiving
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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 not have jurisdiction over the state where the alleged wrongdoing took place. Abiri, who was detained without charge for over two years until his release last month, was accused of criminal
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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 (GNA).The group of attackers are linked to the Ghanaian opposition politician, Hassan Ayariga of the All Peoples Congress party. Jerry Azanduna says he received a phone call earlier that day
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Human rights organizations are demanding the immediate release of a Tanzanian journalist, Sitta Tumma. Tumma was arrested on August 8 while covering an opposition campaign rally in the Tarime district of northern Tanzania ahead of a local authority by-election. The journalist is a reporter and regional bureau chief for the privately owned Tanzania Daima newspaper. Independent eye-witnesses confirm
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Security forces in Uganda have been accused of beating and detaining four journalists covering protests in the capital, Kampala early this week. The arrested journalists include Reuters photographer James Akena, Alfred Ochwo, a photojournalist with the privately owned The Observer newspaper, and NTV journalists Ronald Galiwango and Juma Kirya. The four journalists were arrested while covering protests in Kampala to demand
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A community radio station in the northwest region of Cameroon, Sky FM has been attacked and burnt down by supposedly unknown persons. The alleged arson attack , which happened on August 3, destroyed the radio station’s two transmitters, computers, four recorders, a video camera, a mixer, a decoder, television set, and several office furniture.
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Ugandan journalist Damba Wiziri has been attacked twice while covering a recent national parliamentary election in the Sheema Municipality in Uganda.
Damba Wiziri works for the majority state-owned Vision Group’s print, television, and online platforms. A report from Uganda’s Human Rights Network for Journalists confirmed that Wiziri was attacked while covering a demonstration by members of an opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York has called on Nigerian authorities to immediately release Jones Abiri, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Weekly Source newspaper. Jones Abiri was arrested by Nigeria’s state security service in July 2016 and has been in jail without trial since his arrest two years ago. Abiri was brought to court on Friday in Abuja, his second court appearance in a week after two years in detention without family visitation. His lead counsel, Femi Falana confirmed that Abiri was charged at the first hearing with sending text messages to two oil companies, Shell and Agip, allegedly demanding bribe payments, but the state couldn’t produce witnesses to testify against Abiri.
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