Kenyan police assault journalists investigating corruption
April 20, 2015 4:06 PM ET
Nairobi, April, 20, 2015--Two journalists were beaten by officers from Kenya's paramilitary police wing, the General Service Unit (GSU), at a cattle ranch in southeastern Kenya on April 18, according to news reports. Nehemiah Okwembah, from the privately owned daily...
Photographers attacked: Two weeks in southern Africa
June 5, 2013 12:39 PM ET
From Cape Town to Lilongwe, four photographers on routine news assignments in major southern Africa cities were assaulted by security officials in the past two weeks. The details differ, but the heavy-handed actions in each case reflect a belief...
As Kenya votes, journalists must take precautions
February 25, 2013 12:27 PM ET
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 nation's last presidential elections in 2007, over one thousand...
In Nigeria, Boko Haram threatens attacks on media
September 24, 2012 4:16 PM ET
A radical militant Islamist group released an 18-minute video on May 1, 2012, that threatened attacks on at least 14 local and international news outlets, according to news reports. In the video, Boko Haram, a group seeking the imposition of...
Where is Meles Zenawi? Ethiopians don't know.
July 26, 2012 4:09 PM ET
If you search for the name of Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, on Twitter these days, you'll see a flurry of incongruent postings: Meles is hospitalized in critical condition; he's fine and returning to work; he died two weeks...