THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe Independent Publishers and Standard Press, Trevor Ncube, has won the prestigious German Africa Award 2008 for his courageous fight for human rights, press freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe.
Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Tunji Egbetokun recently said that the legislature barred the state-owned radio and television stations from covering its activities because their editorial teams were yet to recover from the shock of the impeachment
As part of their shared responsibility, to call for lasting peace in Bawku, journalists/reporters, from both print and electronic media, radio presenters and programmers of all the five radio stations in the Region, have organized a football gala in Bolgatanga.
A leader of the Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC) has praised journalists in the Northern Region, for their immense contribution towards the growth and sustainability of the organisation.
The speaker of the National Assembly has told executive members of the Gambia Press Union (GPU), to put their house in order and discourage the media's savage attacks against personalities and authorities in The Gambia.
SOUTH African Tourism and internal news network CNN have teamed up to create a three-year user-driven multimedia advertising campaign that aims to attract visitors to SA ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
On 2 July 2008, the trial of two Kwekwe-based journalists accused of publishing falsehoods in breach of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) was postponed to 15 July. The postponement took place after the trial judge
A few minutes before Dr. Ezra Suruma read his national budget speech, MPs from opposition political parties staged a walk-out on account that the Police had previously mistreated some MPs.
The Kanifing Court trying Dida Halake, former Managing Director of the Observer Company Limited, publishers of the pro-government "Daily Observer" newspaper, on 25 June 2008 granted him bail after almost two weeks in detention.
Justice Momodou Darboe, a journalist with The Point, a Banjul-based privately-owned independent daily newspaper, was violently attacked by an armed man on July 1, 2008.
Ethiopian media practitioners forwarded their disappointment on Wednesday after the House finally endorsed the county's media law seen by media fractionates and international press watch dogs as contravening freedom of expression and international human rights.
Gina Ama Blay, publisher and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Western Publications Limited, publishers of the "Daily Guide", an Accra-based pro-government daily newspaper, allegedly received threats on her life on 2 July 2008 by a caller who identified himself only
Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about a knife attack on journalist Momodou Justice Darboe of the independent daily The Point at he was returning home at about 11 p.m. on 1 July in Banjul.
