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- Monday 18 June 2012
June 17, 2012 (PARIS) – Ethiopia has banned Skype and other use of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services that offer audio and video related communications.
The new law was passed late last month and breaking the law is (...)
- Friday 5 April 2013
Reporters Without Borders
5 April 2013
SUDAN
Intelligence agency steps up offensive against Khartoum press
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) ordered Al (...)
- Friday 25 January 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Analysis
24 January 2013
ERITREA
What really happened at Asmara’s ministry of (dis)information?
The Eritrean capital, Asmara, saw an uprising on 21 January that was both unexpected and short-lived. Around (...)
- Wednesday 31 October 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
October 30 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - European jurists have brought the cases of long imprisoned Swedish-Eritrean journalist and activist, Dawit Isaac to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). (...)
- Wednesday 30 January 2013
January 30, 2013 (LONDON) - South Sudan slipped 12 places in the annual press freedom index published by Reporters Without Borders (RWB) on Wednesday, leaving it at 124th out of the 180 countries ranked.
Chief among the reasons for (...)
- Sunday 7 November 2010
November 05, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RWP) has decried the recent crackdown by Sudanese security authorities on activists and journalists from Darfur, just as fighting in the troubled (...)
- Saturday 4 August 2012
Reporters Without Borders Update
3 August 2012
UGANDA
Former radio presenter freed on bail but still facing possible trial
Augustine Okello, a former Rhino FM morning radio show presenter in the northern city of Lira, was finally (...)
- Thursday 9 February 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Advocacy
8 February 2012
ERITREA
Plea by Paris lawyer on behalf of journalists imprisoned in Eritrea
Just two weeks from now, 22 February, is the third anniversary of a raid on Radio Bana in central (...)
- Tuesday 21 August 2012
By Julius N. Uma
August 20, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s draft media law, currently before the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), should be subjected to extensive consultation to ensure the legislation is consistent with international (...)
- Friday 6 July 2012
Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières
Correction and update / Erratum et actualisation
06.07.2012
ETHIOPIA
Although still at draft stage, new telecoms rules give cause for concern
Reporters Without Borders wishes (...)
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