Africa
2012
Africa documents by Year:
Journalists threatened, assaulted amid Senegal election
February 29, 2012 4:49 PM ET
New York, February 29, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Senegalese authorities today to thoroughly investigate recent attacks on the media and ensure that the press is able to report freely on the country's presidential election results and potential run-off. CPJ has documented at least 12 incidents of...
Gunmen murder veteran radio journalist in Mogadishu
February 28, 2012 5:15 PM ET
New York, February 28, 2012--Unidentified gunmen today assassinated a veteran journalist who had been trying to relaunch a radio station that extremist group Al-Shabaab had shut down and looted in 2010, local journalists said....
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Abolishing Censorship
February 21, 2012 11:37 PM ET
Even as trade and new systems of communication turn us into global citizens, the information we need to ensure accountability often stops at national borders. New platforms like social media are valuable tools, but the battle against censorship is hardly over. By Joel Simon...
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Regulating the Internet
February 21, 2012 11:36 PM ET
Legislation for Internet security can quickly turn into a weapon against the free press. Cybercrime laws are intended to extend existing penal codes to the online world, but they can easily be broadened to criminalize standard journalistic practices. By Danny O'Brien...
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Africa
February 21, 2012 11:32 PM ET
Analyses and data chart press freedom conditions throughout the region. Mohamed Keita examines the false choice between development and press freedom, while Tom Rhodes probes an unsolved murder in Kenya that reverberates worldwide....
Attacks on the Press: Development Trumps Freedom
February 21, 2012 11:32 PM ET
Many African leaders continue to offer a false choice between stability and press freedom. Taking a cue from China, a key investor and model, they stress social stability and development over openness and reform. By Mohamed Keita...
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Killing, Coverup in Kenya
February 21, 2012 11:31 PM ET
It is not too late for justice for Francis Nyaruri, who was killed in 2009 after he wrote a story on police corruption. The murder comes against a backdrop of widespread extrajudicial killing. By Tom Rhodes with reporting from Clifford Derrick...
Attacks on the Press in 2011: The Year in Photos
February 21, 2012 11:16 PM ET
Photographers from The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and other news outlets documented historic events in 2011, often at great peril. The Year in Photographs: Press Freedom in 2011 features images from the Arab uprisings, South Asia's armed conflicts, and political repression in the Americas, Africa, and Europe....
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Eritrea
February 21, 2012 11:31 AM ET
No independent press has operated in this Red Sea nation since a September 2001 government crackdown on dissent that led to the imprisonment of 11 leading journalists without charge or trial and the enforced closure of their publications. President Isaias Afewerki's administration consistently refused to account for the whereabouts,...