Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.
Media & freedom of expression
RSS FeedNiger: CSC’s president closes Dounia radio and TV station
2009-07-02, Issue 440
Daouda Diallo, President of Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (CSC), Niger’s media regulatory body, on June 29, 2009 banned Niamey-based independent Dounia TV and Radio station for broadcasting a statement calling on Mamadou Tandja to resign as P...
West Africa: ECOWAS Court dismisses Gambian government objection
2009-07-02, Issue 440
The ECOWAS Community Court hearing the case of torture brought by Musa Saidykhan, a Gambian journalist against the operatives of the Gambia’s notorious National Intelligence Agency (NIA), on June 30, 2009 dismissed the preliminary objections raised b...
Gambia: New twist in journalists “sedition” case
2009-07-03, Issue 440
The trial of seven Gambian journalists accused of publishing with “seditious intention” will now continue at a High Court in Banjul instead of the Kanifing court where the trial began. On July 1, 2009, the accused, four newspaper journalists and thre...
Egypt: Prominent blogger stages sit-in
2009-07-03, Issue 440
Wael Abbas, a leading Egyptian blogger and activist who has documented police abuse in the country in recent years, staged a sit-in for 10 hours after security confiscated his computer upon arrival from attending the Talberg Forum in Sweden....
Gambia: African leaders urged to intervene in violations
2009-07-03, Issue 440
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is once again calling on President John Atta Mills and other African leaders currently meeting in Sirte in Libya to condemn the systematic campaign being waged by President Yahya Jammeh’s administration to unde...
Zimbabwe: Journalists in court to make media commission order legally binding
2009-07-03, Issue 440
The freelance journalists who were barred from covering the COMESA summit recently, have made an application in the High Court to make a court decision legally binding. High Court Justice Bharat Patel ruled in June that the Media and Information Comm...
Mauritania: Journalist arrested and detained
2009-06-25, Issue 439
Hanevy Ould Dahah, managing editor of the online newspaper Taqadoumy was on June 18, 2009 arrested and detained by gendarmeries in Nouakchott. The paper reported on its website that Ould Dahah was handcuffed and led to a police station in Nouakchott,...
Senegal : Court jails two journalists, publisher exonerated
2009-06-25, Issue 439
A magistrate court in Dakar, capital of Senegal on June 16, 2009 sentenced two journalists of the Week-End, a privately-owned weekly magazine, to three months imprisonment for defaming Mme Aida Mbodji, second deputy speaker of the country’s national ...
Gambia: Seven detained journalists granted bail, another arrested
2009-06-25, Issue 439
Four newspaper journalists and three executives of the Gambian Press Union (GPU) charged with three counts of publishing with “seditious intention” were on June 22, 2009 granted bail by the Kanifing Court in the sum of 200,000 Dalasis (about US$7, 00...
Africa: Congo neighbours in media control plot
2009-06-25, Issue 439
The media regulation bodies of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) have signed an agreement on the control of political propaganda programmes. The agencies signed a commitment not to allow any of their ...
Sierra Leone: SLAJ intensifies campaign to repeal criminal laws
2009-06-25, Issue 439
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has announced that it would on July 13, 2009 march through the streets of Freetown, as part of its long-sustained pressure to get the country’s Supreme Court to give a ruling on the case it filed in ...
Gambia: Detained journalist granted bail without charge
2009-06-25, Issue 439
Augustine Kanja, a reporter of privately-owned Banjul-based The Point newspaper, was on June 24, 2009 released on police enquiry bail in the sum of 50,000 Dalasis (approx. 1700 US$). Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)’s sources reported that alt...
Niger: Live discussions on privately-owned media banned
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Niger's media regulatory body, the High Communication Council (CSC), on June 8, 2009 banned all live discussions on the prevailing political situation in the country by privately-owned electronic media outlets. The CSC Chairman, Daouda Diallo, who ...
Gambia: Detained newspaper publisher charged
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Abdul Hamid Adiamoh, managing editor of Today, a privately-owned newspaper who has been in detention since his arrest on June 10, 2009 was on June 12 charged with “ publishing and broadcasting false information”, contrary to Section 181 (A) of the ...
Gambia: GPU slams President Jammeh over late Deyda Hydara
2009-06-19, Issue 438
The Gambian Press Union (GPU) has in a statement issued on June 12, 2009 condemned President Yahya Jammeh’s deliberate attempt to vilifying Deyda Hydara, editor and a former critic of his repressive administration, brutally murdered in 2004 by unknow...
Sierra Leone: SLAJ declares blackout on judiciary
2009-06-19, Issue 438
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on June 15, 2009 imposed a news blackout on the country’s judiciary, as part of its sustained campaign to get the Supreme Court to expunge the obnoxious Public Order Act of the 1960 from the laws of ...
Gambia: Jammeh attacks religious leader and threatens the media
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Baba Leigh, Imam of Kanifing and outspoken critic of the President Yahya Jammeh’s administration was on May 22, 2009 warned by President Jammeh to stop criticizing the administration or risk going to prison. Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) so...
Gambia: Government raises objection in the trial of tortured journalist
2009-06-12, Issue 437
The ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja, Nigeria hearing the case of Musa Saidykhan, Gambian journalist allegedly tortured in custody of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) will on June 30, 2009 give its ruling on preliminary objection raised by the G...
Niger: Live discussions on privately-owned media banned
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Niger’s media regulatory body, the High Communication Council (CSC), on June 8, 2009 banned all live discussions on the prevailing political situation in the country by privately-owned electronic media outlets. The CSC Chairman, Daouda Diallo, who an...
Senegal: Court seizes magazine
2009-06-12, Issue 437
A magistrate’s court in Dakar, capital of Senegal, on June 3, 2009 suspended the circulation of June 2009 edition of L’Essentiel, a monthly current affairs magazine and ordered its seizure over headlines on the cover-page that the court claimed were ...
Somalia: Journalist murdered in Mogadishu
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Somali Coalition for Freedom of Expression (SOCFEX) has condemned the killing of the director of radio Shabelle Muqtar Mohamed Hirabe who was murdered in Bakare market, Mogadishu by two unknown gunmen. And the journalist Ahmed Omar Hashi who was w...
Gloibal: Women speak out at Global Forum on Freedom of Expression
2009-06-12, Issue 437
The thing (the authorities) are most angry about is my voice," says Philo Ikonya, president of PEN Kenya. Ikonya has been involved in a number of protests and political readings recently and was arrested and severely beaten in police custody this pas...
Kenya: Photojournalist banned by Facebook
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The first Kenyan photojournalist to win the CNN Multichoice Journalist Award has been banned by social networking site Facebook. Boniface Mwangi who won the CNN Africa Photojournalist of the Year 2008 is starting up a new Facebook profile after his w...
Ghana: Ruling party distances itself from attack on radio station
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) on June 2, 2009, officially denied any involvement of its members in the recent vandalisation of privately-owned Techiman-based Classic FM in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. The regional chairman of NDC,...
Global: WikiLeaks wins Amnesty 2009 New Media Award
2009-06-05, Issue 436
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange has won the Amnesty 2009 New Media Award for work exposing hundreds of recent extrajudicial assassinations in Kenya. The award was presented last night at a ceremony in London. Four people associated with investigating...
Somalia: IFJ condemns kidnapping of media executive
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the kidnapping of Ibrahim Mohammed Ali, also known as Jeekey, the director of Universal television channel based in Garasbaley, Somalia. “We firmly condemn this act of violence which con...
Libya: Government nationalises reform media
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The Libyan government's decision to nationalise a number of private-owned media outlets a few weeks ago continues to stir reactions in Libya and abroad. The decision, some observers say, deals a blow to the country's attempts to reform. The nationali...
Sudan: Journalists protest press law before parliament
2009-06-05, Issue 436
Sudan's draft press law will seriously impede journalists' ability to access and disseminate information if passed, say Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). ARTICLE 19 and the International Federation of Jou...
Africa: MRA's Executive Director elected head of IFEX
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda (MRA), Mr. Edetaen Ojo, has been elected Convenor of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), the largest network of freedom of expression organizations in the world. As Convenor, he chai...
Sierra Leone: Editor charged with “defaming President”
2009-05-29, Issue 435
Authorities in Freetown have charged Sylvia Blyden, Publisher and managing editor of the privately-owned 'Awareness Times' newspaper in Sierra Leone, with “defaming” President Ernest Bai Koroma, the sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West...
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