By Tom Rhodes/CPJ East Africa Representative The Committee to Protect Journalists and 18 other organizations are urging Burundi authorities to investigate attacks on journalists and human ri... Read more
Press Release The new Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has appealed to friends and well-wishers to stop placing... Read more
Abidjan, August 5, 2015 – A journalist who was imprisoned for almost a week by authorities in the Ivory Coast has been charged with defamation, among other crimes, according to the jou... Read more
Nairobi, August 5, 2015 – Authorities in South Sudan have shut down three independent media outlets in the past five days, according to news reports and the outlets’ editors. The... Read more
Press Release Justice Valentine Ashi of the FCT High Court sitting in Apo on Wednesday, August 5, 2015, adjourned to August 12, 2015, for hearing on the preliminary objection raised by the A... Read more
Press Release The Federal Government has approved the retirement of all eight Group Executive Directors of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) with immediate effect. The affec... Read more
Press Release Newly appointed Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has assumed duty as the Chief Executive of the Corporation at... Read more
Press Release The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday 3rd August 2015, arraigned one Bawa Momodu before Justice I.E Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcou... Read more
Nairobi, August 3, 2015 – Burundi security forces detained and beat a journalist on Sunday while he was covering the assassination of a top general in the capital, Bujumbura, according... Read more
UNESCO is carrying out a research on media and information literacy globally. We are inviting the response of experts, practitioners, teachers or policy makers involved in the field of media... Read more