May 22

• Uganda: Security Forces Seize Ugandan Media Outlets [press release]

  The crackdown on four media houses on 20 May 2013 by security agencies under unclear circumstances is a serious threat to media freedom and freedom of expression in Uganda. The... Read more »

May 21

• Nigeria: Nigerian Reporter Slapped, Detained for Photographing Policeman [press release]

  On 14 May 2013, two policemen attached to the Sabo Police Division in Lagos assaulted Mr. Samson Folarin, a correspondent with The Punch newspaper, while he was taking photographs... Read more »

May 17

• Uganda: Report Assesses Safety of Journalists in Uganda [press release]

  The government's failure to protect journalists is rendering the journalism profession the most dangerous in Uganda, a report by Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda... Read more »

• Guinea: Police in Guinea Clamp Down On Protests Against Voter Registration Software [press release]

  On 18 April, 2013, members of Guinea's National Police Force fired tear gas and live bullets to disperse a large group of opposition demonstrators who were protesting against the... Read more »

May 15

• Liberia: Liberian Security Service Director Takes Newspaper to Court for U.S. $1 Million [press release]

  Mr. Othello Warrick, director of the Executive Protection Service [the presidential guard unit] has taken The Monitor newspaper and its news coordinator, Octavin Williams, to court... Read more »

May 14

• Uganda: Uganda Blocks Journalist From Reporting at Airport [press release]

  A number of Ugandan journalists were blocked by security forces from accessing the national airport at Entebbe to cover the return of an army officer, General David Sejusa... Read more »

May 13

• Liberia: Journalists Impose Media Blackout On Liberian Presidency [press release]

  On May 9 2013, Liberian journalists - under the banner of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) - took several actions in response to disparaging and threatening remarks made against... Read more »

May 10

• Liberia: Freedom of Information Law Faces First Legal Test [press release]

  The Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) has filed a writ of mandamus with the Supreme Court of Liberia to compel the Independent Information Commission to conduct... Read more »

May 9

• Guinea: Opposition Demonstrators Attacked, Killed and Journalists Threatened in Protests [press release]

  On 2 May 2013, supporters belonging to the Guinean Opposition Coalition were brutally attacked with live bullets and tear gas by police officers and gendarmes drawn from the Guinea... Read more »

May 8

• Chad: Anti-Corruption Blogger Charged With Defamation [press release]

  The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International protests the treatment of blogger and writer Jean Laokolé, who has been charged with defamation after being arrested by... Read more »

• Somalia: Somali Government Recommits to Protection of Journalists [press release]

  Among the measures announced during today's World Press Freedom Day celebrations include the speeding up of thorough investigations into the killing of journalists and better... Read more »

May 7

• Somalia: Report Examines Deadly Violence Against Somali Journalists in 2012 [press release]

  On World Press Freedom day, 3 May 2013, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) - based in Mogadishu - launched its Annual Press Freedom Report for the year 2012. Read more »

• Nigeria: Nigerian Film Board Bans Documentary On Corruption in Oil Industry [press release]

  A film documenting corruption in the management of oil profits has been banned in Nigeria. Read more »

• Uganda: Ugandan Advocate Wins EU Human Rights Defenders Award [press release]

  The national coordinator of the Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda), Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, has won the European Union Human Rights Defenders Award for... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Reyot Alemu and the Crime of Courage [press release]

  By awarding Reyot Alemu with the 2013 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, UNESCO is recognizing the imprisoned journalist's courage in the face of the Ethiopian government's... Read more »

February 2

• Gambia: Rights Groups Call for End to State Harassment Against Gambian Journalist [press release]

  Dear President Jammeh, Read more »

January 31

• Somalia: Somali Authorities Lay Charges Against Alleged Rape Victim and Journalist [press release]

  Somali authorities should drop politically motivated charges against five people including a journalist and a woman who alleged she was raped by state security forces, Human Rights... Read more »

January 30

• Kenya: Violence Against Journalists Increases Ahead of Polls [press release]

  ARTICLE 19 is concerned about the increasing level of violence against journalists ahead of the national elections in the country in March 2013. Read more »

January 29

• Botswana: Botswanan Weekly's Independence Threatened By Printer's Refusal to Publish [press release]

  A weekly broadsheet, The Patriot on Sunday, has failed to publish its current edition after their printers, Printing and Publishing Company Botswana (PPCB) refused to print the... Read more »

• Nigeria: Nigerian Reporter Gets Death Threats for Featuring Politicians On-Air [press release]

  Journalists in Adamawa state, in northeast Nigeria, say their lives are in danger as a result of reporting on a crisis plaguing the ruling Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) in the... Read more »

January 26

• Benin: TV Station Director Sentenced to Hard Labour in Benin [press release]

  A Court in Cotonou, the capital, on January 16, 2013 sentenced Berthe Cakpossa, director of the privately-owned television channel Canal 3 Benin, to three months in prison with... Read more »

January 25

• Egypt: Under Morsi, Criminal Defamation Suits Soar in Egypt [press release]

  When promises of increased media freedoms followed President Hosni Mubarak's downfall in early 2011, a wave of new satellite channels and newspapers flooded the media scene in... Read more »

January 24

• Kenya: Kenyan Journalists Attacked While Covering Riots [press release]

  Kenyan authorities must hold to account soldiers with the General Service Unit, Kenya's paramilitary force, in connection with their reported assault of two journalists on Sunday,... Read more »

January 23

• Nigeria: Government Bars Officials From Speaking With Press in Nigeria [press release]

  On 21 January 2013, the Lagos state government issued a notice barring its political office holders and civil servants, including the heads of the state ministries, departments and... Read more »

• Tanzania: Coalition Calls for End to Ban On Newspaper

  Source: Media Institute of Southern Africa Read more »