Uganda: Monitor offices under police siege
UPDATE from FAIR Board members Charles Mwanguhya (Monitor Editor) and Barbara Among: “All staff were ordered out of the premises and police have sealed the head office which it says […]
Tag Archives: media freedom
No more ‘Uhuru’ for Tanzanian media
Freedom of the media is in sharp decline following the brutal attack on Absalom Kibanda, Chairperson of Tanzania Editors Forum at his home in Dares Salaam.
As Kenya votes, journalists must take precautions
Election-related violence is a worry for journalists in many countries, but perhaps nowhere more so than Kenya, where presidential polls will be held March 4. In the aftermath of the […]
ALERT: Tanzanian investigative journalist harassed
The Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR) is appalled at the recent harassment of its member and Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera, following recent moves by Immigration officers to arrest, detain […]
Small Grants for African Investigative Journalists [EN/FR/PO]
SMALL GRANT FINALISTS 2013 Stanley Kwenda Zimbabwe Rosemary Nwaebuni Nigeria Sarah Mawarere Uganda Eudias […]
[Opinion] In Meles’ death, as in life, a penchant for secrecy, control
Ethiopians awakened to state media reports that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, 57, the country’s leader for 21 years, had died in an overseas hospital of an undisclosed disease.
[Opinion] Another threat to journalism
A proposed law threatens journalists who work outside the mainstream of print and TV, writes Vinayak Bhardwaj and Stefaans Brummer in the Mail & Guardian.
[Press Freedom] South Africa urged to ‘drop charges against M&G’ Editor and journalists
President Jacob Zuma must demand that charges against Mail & Guardian editor Nic Dawes and two journalists be dropped, a lobby group said on Friday.
