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DAKAR, Senegal, May 28, 2015/ -- APO (African Press Organization) (http://www.apo-opa.com), the sole press release newswire in Africa...
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I had the opportunity to visit Gambia for the second time in a year as an International Programmes Officer responsible for monitoring orphan programmes for an NGO in London. My visit lasted 10 days and I met many...
Al Jazeera has confirmed that its two journalists held by the Nigerian military since 24 March 2015 have been released.
Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustapha were allowed to leave the Maiduguri hotel where they were detained, and they have now completed...
Legal action has been taken to declare the Nigerian military’s detention of two Al Jazeera journalists as “illegal and unconstitutional.”
The Motion on Notice filed today in Abuja’s high court seeks the enforcement of Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustafa’s “fundamental...
Al Jazeera has once again urged the Nigerian authorities to release their detained journalists in Maiduguri who have now been detained for a week without any explanation.
The detention has been condemned by the Committee to Protect Journalists and...
Abuja, Nigeria, March 26, 2015--Nigerian military authorities on Tuesday confined two Al-Jazeera journalists to their hotel room and have forbidden them from leaving, according to a statement published on Wednesday by the Nigerian Defense Headquarters and both journalists who...
New York March 25, 2015-The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Angolan authorities to drop all charges against journalist Rafael Marques de Morais.
Marques de Morais told CPJ today that when he arrived in court on Tuesday for his scheduled...
A schoolgirl walks past campaign posters for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos. Journalists covering the election campaign say they are being attacked. (Reuters/ Akintunde Akinleye)
By Peter Nkanga/CPJ West Africa Representative
"Nobody is safe. Not the voter, not the journalist,...
South Africa, 1960
On March 21, 1960, exactly 55 years ago today, a crowd estimated at five thousand (according to apartheid police 20 thousand, inflated to justify their extreme response) gathered in front of a police station in the South...
By Mekki Elmograbi
The summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) scheduled from 20-31 March, 2015 has started in Addis Ababa at AU Headquarters.
The first activities of summit are the 34th COMESA policy organ meetings and...