Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Media & freedom of expression
RSS FeedAfrica: Press freedom wanting in Africa
2008-05-08
The tussle between governments and the media over what the public should know have been raging for several years not only in Africa, but across the globe. Governments react to media footage by closing down the media offices, conducting raids on the ...
Zimbabwe: IFJ calls for release of newspaper editor
2008-05-08
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for the release of Davison Maruziva, the editor of a privately owned weekly The Standard, who has been arrested and charged with "false statements prejudicial to the state and contempt of c...
Nigeria: Legislators urged to pass FOI bill
2008-05-08
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the members of Nigeria's House of Representatives to stop delaying the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill after its consideration was deferred for the fifth time last week....
Niger: Radio station shut down for broadcasting military brutalities
2008-04-30
Sahara FM, a privately-owned radio station based in Agadez, the largest city in the northern part of Niger, was on April 22, 2008, shut down indefinitely by the media regulator, the High Communications Council (CSC) for allegedly "inciting ethnic hat...
Gambia: Defence counsel fails to show up in court for the second time
2008-04-30
The protracted sedition trial against Fatou Jaw Manneh, a US-based Gambian journalist, was on April 24, 2008, adjourned to April 30 by Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Kanifing Magistrates Court. Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) sources in The Gamb...
Ghana: Minister Interrupts TV programme
2008-05-01
Joe Baidoo Ansah, Ghana's Minster of Trade and Industry, on April 24, 2008, interrupted a live-broadcast on Metropolitan Television (Metro TV), an Accra-based TV station, to register his displeasure about the inclusion of Nii Moi Thompson, an opposit...
Zimbabwe: Another journalist arrested
2008-05-02
Reporters Without Borders condemns Thursday’s arrest of freelance journalist Precious Shumba in a police raid on the Harare office of the international aid NGO ActionAid, where Shumba works as a programmes officer. A reporter for The Daily News until...
Gambia: Court conceals prosecution's witness identity in the journalist's sedition trial
2008-04-24
The Kanifing Magistrate Court trying Fatou Jaw Manneh, a US-based Gambian journalist for alleged sedition on April 21, 2008 restricted the general public from the trial by ruling that only Manneh's family members and two journalists were to be admitt...
Somalia: Well-known journalist arrested in Mogadishu
2008-04-25
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is disturbed by the arrest of prominent and respected radio journalist Abdi Mohammed Ismail, who works for Mogadishu-based privately owned Shabelle Media Network. Abdi Mohammed Ismail, publicly known A...
Eritrea: Journalist held since 2006
2008-04-25
Reporters Without Borders has learned from local sources that Tura Kubaba, a journalist with the Kunama-language service of state-owned Radio Dimtsi Hafash (“Voice of the Masses”), has been detained in Eritrea since the second half of 2006 and disapp...
Cameroon: Critic musicians still detained
2008-04-25
The Network of African Freedom of Expression Organisations [NAFEO] is deeply concerned about the repression of freedom of expression, including artistic in Cameroon where two renowned musicians continued to linger in jail for singing songs criticisin...
Zimbabwe: State declines to prosecute Mutare journalist
2008-04-25
Mutare public prosecutor Malvern Musarurwa has declined to prosecute freelance journalist Sydney Saize whose trial on allegations of contravening the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and Public Order and Security...
Niger: Radio station shut down for broadcasting military brutalities
2008-04-25
Sahara FM, a privately-owned radio station based in Agadez, the largest city in the northern part of Niger, was on April 22, 2008, shut down indefinitely by the media regulator, the High Communications Council (CSC) for allegedly “inciting ethnic hat...
Sudan: Secret police seize copies of six daily newspapers
2008-04-18
Reporters Without Borders called on the Sudanese government to lift its almost three-month censorship of the privately-owned press in Khartoum which has intensified in recent days with the seizure of six daily newspapers....
Gambia: Journalist's case postponed yet again
2008-04-18
The sedition trial against Fatou Jaw Manneh, a US-based Gambian journalist, was on April 14, 2008, adjourned to April 21 by Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Kanifing Magistrates Court. Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) sources reported that Jawo, ad...
Zimbabwe: IFJ calls for the release of detained journalist
2008-04-18
The International Federation of Journalist (IFJ) has called for the release of the freelance Zimbabwean journalist Frank Chikowore who was arrested on arson charges during an opposition strike. Authorities in Zimbabwe have cracked down on journalists...
Sudan: IFJ welcomes agreement to end censorship
2008-04-18
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed an agreement by Sudanese authorities to end censorship after journalist union leaders brought together a group of newspaper editors in a concerted effort to strengthen ethical journalism ...
DRC: Journalists held incommunicado
2008-04-11
Reporters Without Borders and Journalists in Danger (JED), its partner organisation in Democratic Republic of Congo, have written to Congolese interior minister Denis Kalume Numbi asking him to intervene in the case of newspaper editor Nsimba Embete ...
Gambia: Fatou Jaw Manneh's missing case file found
2008-04-09
The Kanifing Magistrates Court will on April 16, 2008, hear the case of Fatou Jaw Manneh, a US-based Gambian journalist on trial for an alleged sedition. Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) sources reported that this followed the retrieval of Man...
Kenya: Post-election violence journalists to receive counselling
2008-04-11
Journalists who covered and were psychologically affected by last year’s post election violence are now going to benefit from a trauma counseling programme that was launched last week. Organized by the Kenya Association of Photographers, Illustrators...
Zambia: Bid to caution editor dismissed
2008-04-11
An independent Zambian newspaper, "The Post", was recently released from accusations of interference in a court case involving former Zambia Army defence chiefs who are being tried on allegations of corruption. "The Post" gained a victory when the Ma...
Senegal: Police rough up journalists covering protest
2008-04-04
Reporters Without Borders condemns police use of violence against journalists covering a banned street march against cost of living increases in Dakar yesterday afternoon, and a police raid on a TV station that was broadcasting footage showing how po...
Morocco: IFJ calls for probe inot attack on journalists' union leader
2008-04-04
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on Moroccan authorities to investigate an attack on Mohamed Daw Serraj, a journalist and general secretary of the Syndicat National de la Presse Marocaine (SNPM), who sustained head injurie...
Morocco: Press rallies behind newspaper after record libel verdict
2008-04-04
In the wake of what many are calling an "exorbitant" penalty for libel, a diverse group of Moroccan newspapers is coming out in support of Al Massae daily. The papers say the decision threatens independent journalists and free speech....
Cameroon: Nyatcha presses on against the powerful
2008-04-04
Lilianne Nyatcha has withstood intimidation for her coverage of Cameroon's crackdown on political protests and harassment of the private press. She has also trained other women to test the boundaries and follow her lead....
Zimbabwe: Police arrest two foreign journalists
2008-04-04
Zimbabwean police on Thursday arrested two foreign correspondents, including a New York Times correspondent who was covering the country's election. "I can confirm that we have arrested two reporters at York Lodge for practising without accreditation...
Egypt: Vocal editor jailed
2008-03-28
A court in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Wednesday sent the country's most erudite and vocal editor to six months in prison for writing a story on the health of President Hosni Mubarak. Ibrahim Eissa - Chief Editor of 'Al-Dustur' daily - was found gu...
Somalia: Call on President not to assent to the media bill
2008-03-26
The Network of African Freedom of Expression Organisations (NAFEO) has learned with dismay the adoption by the Transitional Parliament of Somalia of a new press bill which blatantly violates press freedom and freedom of expression. The new law contra...
Gambia: Journalist's case remains in limbo
2008-03-26
The fate of Fatou Jaw Manneh, a US-based Gambian journalist accused of sedition, is not certain, as her case file has gone missing. On March 17, 2008, when the case was called, the trial magistrate, Buba Jawo, said there was no file before him pertai...
North Africa: IFJ Welcomes creation of Union Alliance
2008-03-26
The International Federation of Journalists has welcomed the formation of the Association of Journalists Unions in the North of Africa, which will act as the regional body of journalists’ trade unions in the media industry in the region....
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