Kenya: Rights body condemns arrest of journo over 'used underwear' story

03 october 2017 - 15:40:17
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International has condemned the arrest of Zimbabwean journalist, Kenneth Nyangani, for reporting that the First [...] Full text...

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France: UNESCO to honour jailed Eritrean-Swedish journo on World Press Freedom Day

28 april 2017 - 16:42:43
Paris, France (PANA) - Jailed Eritrean-Swedish playwright, journalist and writer Dawit Isaak will be awarded the 2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World [...] Full text...

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US: 'Somalia intelligence agency detains journalist for weeks'

06 january 2016 - 23:50:18
New York, US (PANA) - Somali authorities should immediately release journalist Abdirisak Omar Ahmed or disclose any charges against him, [...] Full text...

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US: 2015, fourth most deadly year on record for journos

06 january 2016 - 21:59:45
New York, US (PANA) - Some 71 journalists were killed in direct relation to their work in 2015, making it [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: CPJ calls on Sierra Leone to release newspaper editor

18 december 2015 - 23:22:13
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on authorities in Sierra Leone to release Jonathan [...] Full text...

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UN: Release of Egyptian journo hailed

12 november 2015 - 01:18:56
New York, US (PANA) - UN human rights experts have welcomed the release of Egyptian journalist Hossam Bahgat, but expressed [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: CPJ urges authorities to find, free abducted columnist

03 september 2015 - 09:56:17
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Nigerian authorities to do their utmost [...] Full text...

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Kenya: CPJ condemns killing of S/Sudanese journo

21 august 2015 - 08:36:07
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the killing of Peter Julius Moi, a reporter [...] Full text...

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Gambia: CPJ calls on Gambia to free journo, drop charges against him

12 august 2015 - 09:57:37
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has written a letter to Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to [...] Full text...

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Gambia: Detained journo freed

15 july 2015 - 08:36:21
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Mr. Alagie Sisay, Managing Director of the Taranga FM radio station in The Gambia, has been [...] Full text...

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Senegal: Media rights group demands release of Gambian journo

09 july 2015 - 14:37:04
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has called for the immediate release of detained radio [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Boko Haram threatens Nigerian journo

07 july 2015 - 13:07:30
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian terror group Boko Haram has threatened to kill a Nigerian newspaper journalist over a story [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Somali journo shot by gunmen

15 april 2015 - 11:06:46
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the shooting attack on a Somali photographer in [...] Full text...

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Belgium: EU welcomes release of Australian journalist Pater Greste in Egypt

05 february 2015 - 11:36:11
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has welcomed the release by the Egyptian authorities of the Australian Al-Jazeera [...] Full text...

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US: US 'deeply concerned' by jailing of Ethiopian journo

31 october 2014 - 08:54:58
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States has expressed deep concern over the 27 Oct. sentencing of Ethiopian journalist [...] Full text...

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Botswana: US condemns Botswana over journo's arrest

11 september 2014 - 08:33:43
Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - The United States has condemned Botswana over its recent arrest of newspaper editor Ousta Mokone over [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Tributes pour in for Nigerian journo killed by hit-and-run driver

06 september 2014 - 18:40:11
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan Saturday led growing tributes to top journalist Dimgba Igwe who was killed while [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Somali security arrest journo after speaking out against censorship

04 september 2014 - 12:38:23
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Somali journalist Hassan Gessey, a radio director at the independent Dalsan Radio, is being held without [...] Full text...

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Senegal: Journo gets 1-year suspended sentence over false news on Ebola

15 august 2014 - 08:02:41
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Director of publication of the Senegalese daily “La Tribune” Félix Nzalé was sentenced to a one-year [...] Full text...

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Kenya: EAJA seeks release of detained journo in Puntland, Somalia (Corrected)

08 august 2014 - 11:47:49
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) has urged the Puntland Government in Somalia to immediately set [...] Full text...

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Kenya: CPJ urges S/Sudan to ensure journalist's safety

07 august 2014 - 11:56:59
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the authorities in South Sudan to ensure [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Media groups slam jailing of journo, lawyer in Swaziland

28 july 2014 - 13:02:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Prominent media groups have slammed the Swaziland High Court’s decision to sentence one of [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Rights group deplores jailing of Swazi journo, lawyer

28 july 2014 - 07:32:05
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The sentencing of a newspaper editor and a human rights lawyer to two years in prison [...] Full text...

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Sudan: Editor beaten uncouncious by masked men

20 july 2014 - 14:47:25
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- The Editor-in-chief of Sudan's independent daily Al-Tayaar was beaten unconscious by unidentified masked men who forced their [...] Full text...

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South Africa: CPJ condemns journo's conviction

18 july 2014 - 11:50:47
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Thursday's convictions for contempt of [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Media group calls for release of Al Jazeera journalists

17 july 2014 - 08:45:22
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) has called on the Egyptian government to [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: CPJ 'alarmed' at seizure of Nigerian journo

04 july 2014 - 14:26:11
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed shock at the abduction of a Nigerian journalist [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Journalist among victims of Nigeria blast

26 june 2014 - 13:41:34
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian journalist, Suleiman Bisalla, was among the 21 people who died in a bomb blast [...] Full text...

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US: CPJ wants death of Somali Journo in car explosion probed

24 june 2014 - 12:06:16
New York, US (PANA) - Authorities in Somalia must immediately investigate the murder of a Somali journalist in Mogadishu on [...] Full text...

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South Africa: CPJ demands release of detained Zim editor

24 june 2014 - 11:45:06
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Zimbabwean authorities should drop charges against the editor of the state-controlled Sunday Mail and [...] Full text...

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Kenya: EAJA welcomes release of Rwandan journo from jail

19 june 2014 - 10:41:50
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) has welcomed the release from jail of a Rwandan journalist, [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Appeal Court blocks extradition of journo to ICC

29 may 2014 - 14:16:23
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Court of Appeal in Kenya Thursday blocked the arrest and extradition of former journalist to [...] Full text...

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Libya: Journo murdered in Benghazi

26 may 2014 - 12:14:08
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Editor-in-Chief of Libyan newspaper Bournik, Muftah Abouzid, was shot dead on Monday by gunmen in [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Threat to journalist worries Kenyan Correspondents Association

19 may 2014 - 12:52:18
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA) has expressed concern and dismay over threats to a correspondent with [...] Full text...

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Burundi: Regional press union condemns threats to journo

18 april 2014 - 11:20:13
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) has condemned the threats against Nibasumba Alexis, a correspondent for [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: NGO wants journos, rights defenders freed in Egypt

16 april 2014 - 09:29:44
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the African Commission on Human and [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Somali police urged to release Sky FM journo

01 april 2014 - 12:44:13
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Somali authorities to release a radio journalist [...] Full text...

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US: Book on anti-graft war puts Nigerian scholar, journo in global spotlight

04 january 2014 - 10:31:31
New York, US (PANA) - Nigerian scholar, author and journalist Wale Adebanwi's book on the country's anti-graft war has been [...] Full text...

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Rights body wants criminal cases against Angola Journo dropped

12 august 2013 - 11:32:38
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Angola’s attorney-general to immediately drop all criminal defamation [...] Full text...

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CPJ urges investigation of hit-and-run attack on Togolese journo

05 april 2013 - 10:50:31
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Togolese authorities to investigate Wednesday's apparently deliberate [...] Full text...

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Detained Malian journo, Daou, freed on bail

03 april 2013 - 12:06:31
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The editor of the Malian private daily "Le Républicain", Boukari Daou, who has been detained for [...] Full text...

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CPJ wants conviction, jailing of Cameroonian journo overturned

29 march 2013 - 08:30:48
New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the appellate court in Cameroon to [...] Full text...

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CPJ wants detained journo freed in Mali

07 march 2013 - 10:17:03
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the release of a journalist who was [...] Full text...

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HRW condemns Somali journo's conviction for interviewing woman alleging rape

04 march 2013 - 09:44:07
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has described as a major setback for freedom of the media in [...] Full text...

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2013 AFCON: Algerian journo blasts compatriot referee over Nigeria match

22 january 2013 - 14:56:06
Nelspruit, South Africa (PANA) - A top Algerian journalist with Al Jazeera TV, Laraba Mourad, has blasted Benouza Mohammed, his [...] Full text...

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CPJ urges release of detained journo in Gambia

10 january 2013 - 13:43:23
New York, US (PANA) - Press freedom advocacy group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the immediate release [...] Full text...

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Life sentence on Burundian journo reduced to 3 years

08 january 2013 - 16:47:28
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A Burundian Court of Appeal has reduced to three years the life sentence slammed on [...] Full text...

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CPJ urges South Sudanese authorities to probe columnist's murder

06 december 2012 - 09:09:15
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Authorities in South Sudan should thoroughly investigate the murder of an online journalist, identify the motive, [...] Full text...

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CPJ seeks probe of journalists' intimidation in Chad

16 november 2012 - 12:54:01
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Chadian authorities to investigate reports of [...] Full text...

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Sudanese journalist found after being abducted, tortured

07 november 2012 - 11:16:35
New York, US (PANA) - A critical Sudanese freelance journalist was found on the side of a road in the [...] Full text...

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Guinea-Bissau expels Portuguese journalist; another goes into hiding

02 november 2012 - 09:06:17
New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Monday's decision by Guinea-Bissau to expel Portuguese [...] Full text...

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Rwandan police arrest political reporter in Kigali

19 july 2012 - 10:12:41
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Police in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, are holding a newspaper reporter whose employer had earlier [...] Full text...

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Senegalese journo, Seye, buried

22 june 2012 - 11:22:54
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese journalist Cherif Elvalide Seye, who died of stroke Monday in Nairobi, Kenya, was buried Thursday [...] Full text...

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Media rights group condemns shooting of Somali journo

27 march 2012 - 12:48:25
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Sunday's shooting of Somali radio journalist Mohyadin Hassan [...] Full text...

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Senegalese journo. Coulibaly, drops out of presidential race

04 january 2012 - 12:52:14
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese journalist Abdou Latif Coulibaly has withdrawn from the 26 Feb presidential race in the West [...] Full text...

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HRW seeks probe of Rwandan journo's murder

07 december 2011 - 10:30:20
New York, US (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Ugandan authorities to open an ''effective and transparent investigation'' [...] Full text...

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CPJ wants Burundi to end prosecution of journo

13 april 2011 - 10:23:21
New York, US (PANA) - The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has written to Burundi, the only Sub-Saharan [...] Full text...

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CPJ seeks clarification of Jammeh's comment over missing Gambian journo

22 march 2011 - 08:01:52
New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has asked President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia to [...] Full text...

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Kidnapped SA journo freed in Nigeria (corrected)

09 march 2010 - 12:07:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Kidnapped South African sports journalist Nick Greyling has been freed unharmed in Nigeria, according to his [...] Full text...

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Police 'rescue' kidnapped journo in Nigeria, SA journo still held

06 march 2010 - 17:52:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigeria police said Saturday they have rescued one o f the two sports journalists being [...] Full text...

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Tunisian Journo jailed for violence against woman

26 november 2009 - 16:04:00
Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- A Tunis court on Thursday sentenced Tunisian journalist, Taoufik Ben Brick, to six months imprisonment after [...] Full text...

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CPJ wants all charges dropped against Zambian journo

16 october 2009 - 09:49:00
New York- US (PANA) -- The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded that charges filed against veteran [...] Full text...

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Mauritanian journo detained

25 june 2009 - 13:34:00
Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian journalist Hannefi Ould Deha, who ru ns the online information site "Taqadoumy", is being held [...] Full text...

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RSF wants fair trial for Mauritanian journo

23 june 2009 - 13:19:00
Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RS F) has condemned the arrest of Mauritanian journalist Hannefi [...] Full text...

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Ugandan union backs court order to free detained journo

14 june 2009 - 17:27:00
Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The Uganda Journalists Union (UJU) has expressed suppor t for the decision by the Uganda High [...] Full text...

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French judges to interrogate Ivorian First Lady on missing journo

22 april 2009 - 10:13:00
Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Two French judges have arrived in Abidjan to que stion Ivorian First Lady Simon Gbagbo [...] Full text...

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Gambia Press Union hands over 5,000 letters to missing journo's family

11 april 2009 - 18:58:00
Banjul -Gambia (PANA) -- The Gambia Press Union (GPU) executive, led by its Presi dent Ndey Tapha Sosseh, Saturday paid [...] Full text...

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CPJ decries lack of progress in probing murder of Kenyan journo

04 march 2009 - 14:51:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has written to Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki to express concern [...] Full text...

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