A basement in the
gray, Gothic heart of the

A basement in the
gray, Gothic heart of the

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has written a response to a recent CPJ protest letter. While we welcome his attention to the issues we raised about press freedom last month, we note with great concern the president’s comments about the ongoing criminal case of two journalists assaulted by police in 2008.
Twenty-three years
ago, on October 19, 1986, the sun quite suddenly set at noon. In the brutal
darkness, we lost Dele Giwa, just two short years after he and I, along with two
other professional journalists, launched
We've launched a new section of our Web site, and we hope you
take a few minutes to read some of its pages. There is one, for example, on Russian reporter Natalya Estemirova, who dared to examine human rights crimes in Reporter Jolly Kamuntu is more than eight months pregnant,
but she joined hundreds of Congolese journalists today in nationwide protest marches
against insecurity and threats. Kamuntu, who is based in Bukavu, where three
reporters have been murdered since 2007, was cited recently in an anonymous
text message threatening
to kill her and two other local journalists,
More than two weeks have passed since the cold-blooded killing of Bayo Ohu, assistant news editor and political reporter for the Lagos, Nigeria-based The Guardian. The 45-year-old, soft-spoken workaholic opened the door to his home early on Sunday, September 20, as he prepared for church. According to eyewitnesses and local reports, five gunmen and one female ringleader shot Ohu repeatedly in his doorway while his children hid inside. One of his children told The Guardian that from her hiding place she heard one of the men shouting in Yoruba, “Olori Buruki e ti ku”—“The fool is dead.” Curiously, the killers took only Ohu’s laptop and cell phones.
It’s been a couple of weeks since I left
Shadows of emerging skyscrapers in a
neighborhood in Nairobi
come alive as the sun glides down the western horizon. I am walking down one of
the deserted streets in the city’s Eastleigh
shantytown. Lately,