MAY 24, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2005 Abdallah Nurdin Ahmad, HornAfrik ATTACKED Veteran journalist Nurdin was wounded in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when an unidentified gunman fired three times at close range, according to CPJ sources. Nurdin, a senior producer at the private radio station HornAfrik, underwent surgery at Medina Hospital and was recovering.
MAY 22, 2005 Posted: May 31, 2005 Olivier Péguy, Radio France Internationale LEGAL ACTION Péguy, a correspondent for Radio France Internationale (RFI) and several other international news organizations, was forced to leave the country on May 22 after the government refused to renew his work permit. Péguy, who had reported from Madagascar for four years,…
MAY 19, 2005 Updated: September 8, 2005 Radio Brakos CENSORED The High Council of Communication (HCC), an official media regulatory body, suspended the broadcasting license of privately owned Radio Brakos, which is based in the southern town of Moissala. According to a press release issued by the radio station, the HCC said the suspension was…
New York, May 19, 2005—Zimbabwean security forces yesterday detained a freelance journalist filming police as they cleared Harare’s central business district of street vendors, according to a lawyer for the press freedom group MISA-Zimbabwe. The journalist, Frank Chikowore, was being held without charge today. “It’s outrageous that Zimbabwean authorities would lock up someone who was…
New York, May 18, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the closing yesterday of Radiotélévision Kasaï (RTDK), a community radio station in the central diamond mining town of Mbuji-Mayi where at least three people were killed in violent anti-government protests. The local governor accused the radio station of inciting violence, but RTDK…
MAY 17, 2005 Updated: May 23, 2005 Radiotélévision debout Kasaï (RTDK) CENSORED The provincial governor ordered the closing of Radiotélévision debout Kasaï (RTDK), a community radio station in the central diamond mining town of Mbuji-Mayi, where at least three people were killed in violent anti-government protests. The governor, Dominique Kanku, accused the radio station of…
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by ongoing government censorship and attacks on private media in the aftermath of the April 24 presidential election, of which you have been pronounced the winner. Local journalists told CPJ that many phone lines were cut and Internet connections remain tenuous, making it difficult to report ongoing events to the world.
New York, May 16, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the biweekly newspaper The Independent, which lost its printing press in an unsolved arson in April 2004, has been forced to stopped publishing entirely after its printing arrangement with the private Daily Observer was abruptly terminated. The Independent has not published since…