Ghana / Africa

Local leaders join global condemnation of Liberia for jailing Channel Four team

By Claudia McElroyAll over Africa, conflict continued to be the single biggest threat to journalists and to press freedom itself. Both civil and cross-border wars were effectively used as an excuse by governments (and rebel forces) to harass, intimidate, and censor the press–often in the name of “national security”–and in some cases to kill journalists…

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wishes to protest in the strongest terms the ongoing harassment of Kabral Blay-Amihere, president of the West African Journalists’ Association and editor of The Independent newspaper.

Dangerous Assignments

Dangerous Assignments

Dangerous Assignments

For some delegates, just getting to the West African Journalists Association (WAJA) regional conference in Dakar, Senegal, was an impressive achievement. While his colleagues used more conventional modes of transportation, Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) president Frank Kposowa navigated his way out of the country by night in a hired motorized dugout canoe. The…

On April 3, 1981, three New York journalists filed incorporating papers for a new organization called The Committee to Protect Journalists, dedicated to the defense “of the human and professional rights of journalists around the world.”