High-level concern about Nigeria in the U.S. Congress was further demonstrated by two events on July 10 involving members of Congress along with representatives from the Obama ... Read more »
The editor of a government-owned weekly newspaper, Edmund Kudzayi, who is facing charges ranging from insurgency, terrorism, banditry, to sabotage has been granted bail. Read more »
Reporters Without Borders have condemned the dismissal of 20 journalists from state-owned broadcaster Oromia Radio and Television Organisation for "narrow political views". Read more »
The Nigerian government has signed a $1.2 million contract with a Washington public relations firm to change "the international and local media narrative" around efforts to rescue ... Read more »
World leaders, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, have criticized the conviction and jail sentences of three Al Jazeera journalists. Read more »
Three Al Jazeera English journalists - Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed - have been sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt on charges of supporting the Muslim ... Read more »
Somali journalists say the assassination of their colleague, Yusuf Ahmed Keynan, is an attempt to silence the press and have vowed to continue their efforts to preserve freedom of ... Read more »
Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has said that the remains of exiled journalist and writer Nat Nakasa will be repatriated from the United States to be buried at his home in ... Read more »
The Information and Communications Cabinet Secretary has raised concern over media coverage of the Mpeketoni killings saying some of the stories published may lead to enthnic and ... Read more »
The hunger-striking Al Jazeera journalist, Abdullah Elshamy, has been freed from a police station in north of Cairo. Read more »
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