Amadou Mahtar Ba, executive chair and AllAfrica co-founder, is recipient of the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize (LAAP) by the Millennium Excellence Foundation for his ... Read more »
Three magazine owners have been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison for allegedly inciting violent revolts, printing and distributing unfounded rumours and conspiring to ... Read more »
Journalists have been urged to "up their game" and avoid scaremongering - often seen "especially in the Western media" - when reporting on the impact of Ebola in Liberia, Guinea ... Read more »
Oluremi Oyo, the former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria, has died at the age of 62. Read more »
Ekiti State correspondent of ThisDay newspapers Toba Suileman has died at the age of 55. Read more »
More than 50 trade unions and civil society organisations from across the world have joined to nominate two jailed Swaziland journalists for a human rights award. Read more »
The Supreme Court has put off the digital migration and directed the warring parties to engage in dialogue. Read more »
Novelist and journalist Kamel Daoud has emerged the winner of a prestigious prize for French literature for his novel, Meursault, contre-enquête. Read more »
More than 30 girls apparently refused to take part in the annual Reed Dance where virgins from all over the kingdom are required to dance topless. Read more »
The European Union has expressed concern following the alleged violations of human rights in the country Read more »
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