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Asmara denied its Jasmine

Plea by Paris lawyer on behalf of journalists imprisoned in Eritrea

Published on 8 February 2012Read

Djibouti

Abducted and tortured

Radio journalist threatened and tortured for 24 hours

Published on 3 February 2012Read

Côte d’Ivoire

Le Patriote editor released after being held for 24 hours

Reporters Without Borders notes that Charles Sanga, the managing editor of the daily Le Patriote, was released at 6.35pm yesterday after being (...)

Published on 2 February 2012 Read

Mali

Promoting professional media coverage of this year’s elections in Mali

More than 60 Malian journalists who cover politics for state and privately-owned media are attending a two-day seminar on “Media Coverage of (...)

Published on 30 January 2012 Read

Somalia

Shabelle Media Network director gunned down outside home in Mogadishu

Shabelle Media Network director Hassan Osman Abdi, better known locally as “Hassan Fantastic,” was gunned down outside his Mogadishu home at 6:30 (...)

Published on 28 January 2012 Read

CAR

Dismay over editor’s 10-month jail sentence

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the 10-month jail sentence that a Bangui court passed yesterday on Ferdinand Samba, the editor of the (...)

Published on 27 January 2012 Read

Ethiopia

Two journalists sentenced to 14 years on terrorism charges

A week after being found guilty of participating in a terrorist organization and preparing a terrorist attack, the Ethiopian journalists Reyot (...)

Published on 24 January 2012 Read

Nigeria

TV reporter gunned down while covering Kano suicide bombings

Reporters Without Borders condemns TV reporter Enenche Godwin Akogwu’s targeted murder while covering a series of deadly bombings by the militant (...)

Published on 23 January 2012 Read

Côte d’Ivoire

Emergency funds for targeted journalist unable to get medical treatment

Reporters Without Borders is providing temporary financial assistance to Awa Ehoura, a journalist who presented the 8 p.m. news programme on (...)

Published on 20 January 2012 Read

Somalia

NUSOJ annual report says 2011 even worse for journalists

The annual report of the National Union of Somali Journalists, a partner organization of Reporters Without Borders, paints a worrying picture of (...)

Published on 19 January 2012 Read