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Three Chadian journalists remain in pre-trial custody after being arrested earlier this month on charges of colluding with Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group, prompting warning about the government’s “broader crackdown” on critical voices in the landlocked Sahel country. The journalists, including Radio France Internationale’s Chad correspondent Olivier Monodji, are accused of espionage, conspiracy, and undermining Chad’s […]
Egyptian authorities released Monday Al-Jazeera journalist, Hesham Abdel Aziz, and journalist Raouf Ebeid from pretrial detention, reports say. Abdel Aziz, a journalist at Al Jazeera Mubasher, was arrested on 20 June 2019 at Cairo International Airport. He was later accused of belonging to a banned group, and remained in custody until December 2019. Aziz’s health […]
Reporters Without Borders fears reporting in Africa’s Sahel region will soon be ‘mission impossible’, as the international NGO reveals in its latest report published on Monday (3 April) where it describes a deterioration in the working conditions of journalists. Local and international media are caught between jihadist threats and pressure from the authorities, as was […]
Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga, owner of L’Anecdote media group and acquaintance of Cameroonian Minister of Justice Laurent Esso, was arrested Monday in connection to investigation into the abduction and murder of journalist Martinez Zogo last month. The arrest came after Justin Danwe, Deputy Director of Cameroon’s General Directorate for External Investigations (DGRE) confessed to authorities he […]
A trade union representing workers in the arts and media industries in Nigeria has appealed to the country’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to rescind its earlier decision to revoke the licenses of 52 broadcast stations. Nigeria’s broadcasting regulator on Friday (19 August) announced it will revoke the licenses of 52 media organizations, including 20 state […]
France-based international media protection organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued Wednesday a stark report about the state of media in Tunisia as it warns against “risk of diluting the achievements of the revolution”. In the report titled “Journalism in Tunisia: the hour of truth”, the NGO, stressed that “journalism in Tunisia is at a turning […]
Reporters without Borders (RSF) has condemned the cutting off of internet in Mauritania as part of moves to suppress protests that erupted following the victory of the ruling regime’s candidate at Saturday presidential elections. Mauritanian authorities suspended the internet service in the country right after the national electoral commission declared the victory of former General […]
After abandoning Syrian refugees on the Moroccan borders in harsh conditions, Algeria proceeded to impose a ban on foreign journalists who have criticized this inhumane act at a moment it continues to lag behind, taking the 134th place in the freedom of the press index, issued by Reporters without Borders. Moroccans come on top of […]
Reporters Without Borders has denounced the suffocating lack of press freedom in Algerian media since the re-election of president Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a 4th term. The latest death in detention of British-Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt comes to blacken the picture of the alarming situation in the country because it is the first time that an […]
The Algerian authorities have tightened their grip on visa requests by foreign journalists. Visas for the media, which are usually issued within two weeks, have now been taking much longer in the run-up to the elections. Journalists with Spanish media (El Mundo and Agencia EFE) and French media (L’Express, Le Point, Le Monde, Journal du […]