According to Radio France Internationale, Cameroon’s national soccer team and the soccer federation are using spells and magic. The October 6 report alleges that most Cameroonian footballers rush to remote villages deep in the equatorial forest, in search of traditional healers. Cameroon’s Football Association President Samuel Eto’o has described the allegations as ridiculous and defamatory. […]
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Lusaka — Zimbabwean authorities should immediately drop charges against sports freelancer journalist Hope Chizuzu, return his electronic devices, and allow him to carry out his work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Around midmorning on September 29, police detectives went to Chizuzu’s office in the central business district of the capital Harare, where […]
Nairobi — The High Court has ordered the immediate release of Tuko editor Didacus Malowa who had been sentenced for five days by magistrate’s for defying a court order. Justice Esther Maina said the application before court seeking a review of the order to send the editor to jail has raised serious issues that need […]
In a concerted effort, the Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding, (CEMESP) and partner on the project, Integrity Watch Liberia, (IWL), over the weekend concluded a three-day gender sensitive political coverage and reporting in Gbarnga, Bong County. The Training workshop is part of the Liberia Electoral Support Project (LESP}) , in partnership with the Embassy […]
Nairobi — A Tuko.co.ke junior editor has been sentenced to five days in jail for failing to comply with Court orders. Didacus Malowa, the editor, was imprisoned after allegedly declining to publish an apology for a misleading article about the proceedings of the National Youth Service (NYS) corruption case. The news outlet through his lawyer […]
Addis Abeba — The Federal prosecutor has filed multiple charges against journalists Gobeze Sisay, Meaza Mohammed as well as author and activist Asaye Deribe, who has been detained since mid-September the Ministry of Justice has announced. The details of the charges, which were filed at the federal court on Friday 30 September, include provisions of […]
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is saddened by and condemns in the strongest terms the death of journalist Ahmed Mohamed Shukur, a reporter for Somali National Television (SNTV), who was killed today at around 11:30am, in a landmine blast in the Basro neighbourhood of Bal’ad district. According to preliminary reports, Shukur, a young […]
Makhado Municipality makes information available after more than three years The Makhado Municipality in Limpopo has finally made available information on the sale of a public park in Louis Trichardt, after a three-year battle by the publishers of the Limpopo Mirror. The municipality ignored a request under the Public Access to Information Act (PAIA). When […]
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has urged governments at all levels to guarantee the right to access to public information which is in line with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other international instruments. The Guild, in a statement yesterday to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information, said the right […]
Khartoum — On Monday, the Information Crimes and Digital Investigations Prosecution, directed the Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority to block the website of El Sudani newspaper, following a complaint about an information crime. Attaf Mohamed Mukhtar, Editor-in-Chief of El Sudani newspaper, told Radio Dabanga that the news outlet was not officially informed about the decision. […]
Brooklyn Center, MN: Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Atty. Samuel Koffi Woods and Grand BassaCounty Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence are expected to address this year’s National Convention of the Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) slated to be held in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, from September 29 – October 2, 2022. Senator Karnga-Lawrence will address the […]
A true master member of the inky fraternity. PNW. Gone home He lived and believed in the search for the facts that make the news. The truth requires earnest labor to arrive at. In the 1980s the young Philip Wesseh wore his badge of honor as a proud pressman or journalist working with this new […]
IN SHORT: The 2022 electoral duel between Kenya’s two largest parties went right down to the wire. A meeting between two of the presidential hopefuls was therefore newsworthy. But a popular Facebook page sharing the news is not what it claims to be. A Facebook page calling itself “Ramogi TV News” has been posting news […]
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Ghanaian Times Reporter Wins Award
Ghanaian Times Reporter, Ms Benedicta Gyimaah Folley, has been awarded at the Open Forum Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) Media Awards for her outstanding reporting on science. She won the print category of the award scheme which honours exceptional journalism that encourages best practices in the adoption of agricultural technologies in the country. Now in its fifth […]
IN SHORT: A US doctor, who has previously made untrue claims about Covid-19 and vaccines, is on thin ice in saying the vaccines make your body produce a “toxin” spike protein which causes a number of cancers. There is no evidence for this. In a video circulating in South Africa in September 2022, a man […]
IN SHORT: Uganda has recently been gripped by an alleged plot to assassinate the speaker of parliament. But a national newspaper did not report that the president’s family was behind the plot – a screenshot alleging this is fake. An alleged plot to assassinate Anita Among, the speaker of Uganda’s parliament, has gripped the country […]
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria have called for the immediate probe of the mystery behind the death of a Nigerian journalist, Bagauda Kaltho, 26 years after the incident took place. The CSOs maintained that though the incident happened during the military regime of the late General Sani Abacha, there is no time limit for […]
The Board of Shareholders of the New Era Corporation, publishers of The Inquirer newspaper, announces with profound sadness the passing of Mr. Philip N. Wesseh, longtime Managing Editor of The Inquirer newspaper. This sad event occurred on Tuesday, September 14, 2022 at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Monrovia, following a period of illness. […]