Journalist

A Somali court on Monday sentenced a freelance journalist to two months in prison on charges of threatening national security, according to a press association, a case criticized by human rights activists and media groups. The conviction…

Dozens of rights and media groups urged Rwanda to conduct an independent and impartial probe into the death they see as "suspicious" of a top journalist who was critical of the government. John Williams Ntwali, 44, editor of The…

The mutilated body of a prominent Cameroonian journalist was found on Sunday near the capital Yaounde five days after he was abducted by unidentified assailants, the press union and a colleague said. Media advocates described Martinez…

A Senegalese journalist and prominent anti-government critic is “extremely strained” after a two-week hunger strike he launched in protest of his detention, his lawyer said. Pape Ale Niang, head of the Dakar Matin online news site, was…

An Ethiopian court has ordered Ethiopian journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to be released on bail after being imprisoned for months without charges. A judge in the capital, Addis Ababa, granted bail to Kiyaro while prosecutors determine…

Algerian journalist and press freedom activist Khaled Drareni had a two-year jail term reduced on appeal to a six-month suspended sentence , a detainees' rights group said. The 41-year-old who became a symbol of the country's struggle…

A prominent Somali journalist who was a staunch critic of jihadist group Al-Shabaab was killed by a suicide bomber as he left a restaurant in the capital Mogadishu Saturday, officials and colleagues said. Al-Shabaab claimed…

The International journalist organization known as the journalist endanger (JED), has alleged 110 journos have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of this year. In its report entitled "Bad times for the…

The Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), propels its manpower training in media and communication studies to whole different level by floating a film and television academy. The Television academy which began academic…