By Babatunde Osotimehin With just 500 days left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), we must all intensify our actions to hit our targets, especially the MDG 5 targets to redu... Read more
By Jaye Gaskia The constant refrain we keep hearing like a broken record from this voraciously greedy treasury looting ruling elite is that they are speaking for, making demands on behalf, o... Read more
Following close consultation with the Ghanaian government, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation announces the postponement of the annual Governance Weekend, due to take place in Accra 21-23 November 20... Read more
Dear friend of CPJ, Revelations about surveillance, intimidation, and exploitation of the press have raised unsettling questions about whether the U.S. and other Western democracies risk und... Read more
Hassan Gessey, Dalsan Radio director and chairman of Somali Independent Media Houses Association, has been arrested. (SIMHA) Nairobi, September 3, 2014: Somali journalist, Hassan Gessey, a r... Read more
A STATEMENT BY THE SAY NO CAMPAIGN – NIGERIA Introduction The Say No Campaign is a nationwide campaign against Impunity in all its ramifications, with Zonal Hubs and representation acr... Read more
The 2014 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) will convene November 4-6, in Doha, Qatar, under the theme “Imagine – Create – Learn: Creativity at the Heart of Education” The World In... Read more
New Opportunities Browse Opportunities North Africa BBC Media Action hosts training [Algeria] Journalists with at least two years of experience can apply for a two-day training in Algiers. A... Read more
By Sruthijith KK @sruthijith The Times of India is India’s largest selling English newspaper. Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee The Times of India issued a new social media policy on Wednesda... Read more
By Sruthijith KK @sruthijith The Times Group owns several mass-circulation newspapers.AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi Hundreds of journalists working at the Times of India and its sister publications ha... Read more