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- Thursday 6 December 2012
December 6, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudanese political commentator, Isaiah Ding Abraham Chan Awuol, was shot dead in front of his house in Gudele, west of the capital Juba, early on Wednesday morning by unknown gunmen. South Sudanese (...)
- Friday 3 May 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union, to uphold press freedom (...)
- Friday 14 December 2012
December 13, 2012 (PARIS) - Eritrea and Ethiopia have respectively become Africa’s leading jailers of journalists, according to the jailed Journalists List of 2012 released by the US-based, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The (...)
- Friday 12 April 2013
April 11, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern about the safety of Reeyot Alemu, a jailed Ethiopian journalist and teacher.
In a protest letter to Birhan Hailu, (...)
- Monday 21 January 2013
January 16, 2013 (JUBA) – Following a series of attacks, intimidation and threats, comment writers and bloggers in South Sudan say they are operating in a heightened sense of fear. South Sudanese men read newspapers in Juba on 10 July (...)
- Thursday 1 September 2011
New York, August 30, 2011 - The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of a jailed journalist in Sudan, but is troubled by reports of the continued detention of at least eight others without charge. President Omar (...)
- Saturday 4 May 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 3, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - As the globe marks the World Press Freedom Day on Friday, the international press rights group, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), called on the African Union (AU) to do more to (...)
- Monday 7 January 2013
January 6, 2013 (WAU) - Senior officials from South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal on Sunday rejected claims arguing that the state’s administration had done little to sensitise the local population about the benefits attached to the (...)
- Tuesday 3 July 2012
July 2, 2012 (NEW YORK) - An international press rights group on Monday expressed concern that a growing introduction of high tech censorship tools by Ethiopia could encourage other authoritarian regimes in Africa such as in (...)
- Thursday 14 March 2013
March 12, 2012 (JUBA) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the "very inhumane" manner in which a South Sudanese journalist was arrested and detained in the capital, Juba.
The Union of Journalists of South (...)
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