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» 19.09.2008 - Moroccan blogger freed
» 17.09.2008 - Swaziland frees airwaves
» 17.09.2008 - Nigeria TV station shut down
» 15.09.2008 - Publisher jailed for 3 years
» 10.09.2008 - US filmmaker released in Nigeria
» 10.09.2008 - Moroccan blogger jailed
» 08.09.2008 - Kidnappers of two journos demand $2.5 ransom
» 05.09.2008 - CPJ demands release of journalist and translator
» 03.09.2008 - Journalist and media worker detained in Nigeria
» 03.09.2008 - Police arrest 9 suspects for newspaper raids
» 02.09.2008 - Press muzzled ahead of Mswati media brief
» 02.09.2008 - Sudan suspends two English newspapers
» 29.08.2008 - Senegal's anti-press minister fired
» 26.08.2008 - UNESCO Condemns assassination of Nigerian Journalist
» 19.08.2008 - Gambian journalist found guilty of sedition
» 18.08.2008 - Newspapers ransacked in Senegal
» 29.07.2008 - Shock over closure of Lesotho free media
» 23.07.2008 - Taylor accused of starving Nigerian journalists to death
» 11.07.2008 - Fear surrounds Botswana Sim-card registration
» 26.06.2008 - Bissau asked to sustain drug combat
» 18.06.2008 - Gambia's ex-minister becomes media manager
» 17.06.2008 - Mauritania President "tried to stop journalist's detention"
» 13.06.2008 - Malawi media under threat
» 06.06.2008 - Gambia ordered to free missing journalist
» 28.05.2008 - Former Gambian editor acquitted
» 27.05.2008 - Mugabe targets last press outlets
» 26.05.2008 - Another Senegalese journalist slapped with libel
» 16.05.2008 - Lesotho media consider acting against govt
» 16.05.2008 - Senegal journalists' conviction condemned
» 13.05.2008 - Burundi media worker killed
» 07.05.2008 - Somalia's celebrated woman presenter escapes murder
» 07.04.2008 - Gambian police went missing
» 04.04.2008 - MDC contests results delay
» 04.04.2008 - Editors condemn death threats
» 28.03.2008 - Chad press fights in unity
» 27.03.2008 - Zim bars election coverage
» 26.03.2008 - Mugabe threatens investors
» 26.03.2008 - Egypt's vocal editor jailed
» 17.03.2008 - Spy reporters await arrest
» 07.03.2008 - Kenya wants lost glory back
» 07.03.2008 - Editor jailed over "discredit"
» 04.03.2008 - Cameroon media faces crisis
» 03.03.2008 - Wade mediates Chad, Sudan mistrust
» 03.03.2008 - RSF chief denied Niger visa
» 28.02.2008 - Gambia editor returns to dock
» 25.02.2008 - One year since Swaziland's "Afrol affair"
» 22.02.2008 - Cameroon minister closes TV
» 20.02.2008 - Africa needs value-based journalism
» 19.02.2008 - Tortured journalist flees Gambia
» 12.02.2008 - Court rejects Kaka's release
» 11.02.2008 - Insecurity engulfs Chad media
» 01.02.2008 - Publisher escapes death trap
» 30.01.2008 - Editors petition Kenya leaders
» 29.01.2008 - Blast kills Somali journalist
» 24.01.2008 - Court backs Zambian satirist
» 22.01.2008 - Gambia suspends RFI
» 21.01.2008 - Editors' forum scolds Zuma
» 18.01.2008 - Banned Zim paper invited
» 14.01.2008 - Gambia gets alternative media
» 09.01.2008 - Landmine kills media chief
» 04.01.2008 - 51 Egypt websites escape ban
» 02.01.2008 - AU mediates Kenya unrest
» 31.12.2007 - Kibaki's win heightens chaos
» 19.12.2007 - Somalia kidnapping damned
» 17.12.2007 - Slapped Kenya MC sacked
» 17.12.2007 - Editor's killers still at large
» 14.12.2007 - Zambia bans radio calls
» 13.12.2007 - Kenya's 1st lady at it again
» 12.12.2007 - Journalists attract solidarity
» 07.12.2007 - Journalists expose threats
» 06.12.2007 - Zambia leader hails Zim progress
» 06.12.2007 - Tunisia journalists cry foul
» 28.11.2007 - Gambia sued over torture
» 28.11.2007 - Somalia mayor grilled
» 27.11.2007 - Niger court snubs illegal evidence
» 26.11.2007 - Moroccan agent: "Plans to assassinate Lmrabet"
» 23.11.2007 - Gambia judgment rescheduled
» 20.11.2007 - MFWA petitions bulldozers
» 15.11.2007 - African journalists federate
» 13.11.2007 - Rwanda journalist acquitted of genocide
» 12.11.2007 - Gambia leader awaits indictment
» 31.10.2007 - DRC bans 38 broadcasters
» 26.10.2007 - Mbeki misses deadline again
» 24.10.2007 - Liberia media confronts threats
» 24.10.2007 - Gambian journalist missing
» 19.10.2007 - Cry for Ugandan gays
» 16.10.2007 - Eritrea: Worst press freedom abuser
» 12.10.2007 - Egypt: Anti-torture activists detained
» 12.10.2007 - Gambia frees AI officials
» 11.10.2007 - Gabon newspapers suspended
» 11.10.2007 - Senegal editor abducted, beaten
» 10.10.2007 - Gambia seizes AI officials’ passports
» 08.10.2007 - Gambian security detains AI officials
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