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» 16.10.2009 - Chad expels Cameroon editor
» 15.10.2009 - Homosexuals angered by proposed law
» 12.10.2009 - Guineans heed stay-away call
» 09.10.2009 - UN experts raise concern on Gambia's threats of rights defenders
» 06.10.2009 - UNESCO chief condemns killing of Nigerian editor
» 01.10.2009 - UN calls for independent probe in Guinea's deaths
» 30.09.2009 - Guinea's leader to be tough against future protests
» 29.09.2009 - UN hails Sudanese order to lift censorship
» 28.09.2009 - Scores killed by soldiers in Guinea protest
» 28.09.2009 - Release of Zimbabwean activits signal new beginning
» 25.09.2009 - Ugandan editors charged with sedition
» 25.09.2009 - Nigerien editor face criminal libel charge
» 09.09.2009 - Swaziland media urged to speed up self-regulation process
» 03.09.2009 - Violence erupts as junior Bongo declared winner
» 27.08.2009 - SA lawyer appointed UN rights expert on violence against women
» 26.08.2009 - Four Uganda’s journalists face criminal charges
» 25.08.2009 - Niger’s civil society faces increased intimidation, TI
» 25.08.2009 - Crackdown on independent media ahead of election
» 24.08.2009 - JED calls for investigation of journalist's death
» 21.08.2009 - Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests
» 11.08.2009 - Zuma to halt appointment of chief prosecutor
» 05.08.2009 - IFJ condemns seizure of magazines in Morocco
» 03.08.2009 - Niger’s referendum will go ahead
» 21.07.2009 - RSF denounces journalists’ harassment in Congo
» 15.07.2009 - CPJ denounces death threats on journalist
» 10.07.2009 - HRW report was fallacy, E/Guinea
» 09.07.2009 - Political tension hampers media freedom
» 08.07.2009 - Amnesty International warns Ethiopia on new anti terrorism law
» 22.06.2009 - Rights body call for cessation of torture in Angola
» 09.06.2009 - CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Somalia
» 09.06.2009 - 32 alleged coup plotters charged in Ethiopia
» 05.06.2009 - Political figures killed and hunted in Guinea-Bissau
» 03.06.2009 - Swazi human rights lawyer arrested
» 02.06.2009 - US senators petition Gambia in missing journalist's case
» 28.05.2009 - Gays mistreated in Rwanda - AI
» 27.05.2009 - Eritrea rejects release of Swedish journalist
» 27.05.2009 - MPs angered by dissolution of parliament
» 27.05.2009 - Court upholds decision to sack anti graft chief
» 26.05.2009 - Alleged coup plotters denied bail
» 20.05.2009 - Thousands demand Junta to scrap elections
» 14.05.2009 - Mauritania editor narrowly escapes death
» 14.05.2009 - Tanzanian newspaper faces closure from harsh court decision
» 14.05.2009 - Kenya to dispel repressive clause in media law
» 13.05.2009 - Tunisian president urged to stop bullying the media
» 12.05.2009 - Broadcasting commission suspends licence of private radio station
» 12.05.2009 - Authorities ready for BBC suspension talks
» 11.05.2009 - RSF condemns suspension of local station in DRC
» 11.05.2009 - Egypt threatens to dismantle NGO for accepting foreign funding
» 08.05.2009 - Sex starved Kenyan man seeks compensation in court
» 05.05.2009 - AI calls on Ethiopian govt to reveal fate of political prisoners
» 04.05.2009 - Got you swine...!
» 28.04.2009 - Amnesty International begs for protection of alleged gay men
» 28.04.2009 - 27 soldiers sentence to life imprisonment
» 27.04.2009 - Rwanda suspends BBC broadcast for being bias
» 24.04.2009 - ECOWAS asked to intervene on the missing journalist case
» 24.04.2009 - HRW calls for drastic changes on draft Sudanese press law
» 22.04.2009 - Arabic network condemns sentencing of journalist
» 21.04.2009 - Bouteflika told to redress rights violations in Algeria
» 16.04.2009 - Eritrea’s human rights violations deepen the rights crisis, HRW
» 15.04.2009 - Armed men threaten to kill journalist in DRC
» 14.04.2009 - Nine hanged for editor’s murder
» 09.04.2009 - Former MP asks ICC to prosecute govt officials
» 08.04.2009 - Senegalese gay men appeal a homophobic sentence
» 07.04.2009 - Protestors dispersed with gunfire in Somaliland
» 06.04.2009 - Police deployed to foil strike
» 03.04.2009 - Opposition condemned for raising a black flag
» 01.04.2009 - Bissau troops crackdown on critics
» 30.03.2009 - 5 missionaries expelled for trying to convert Muslims
» 30.03.2009 - Next president urged to address impunity
» 23.03.2009 - Two African states among the highest with impunity
» 20.03.2009 - Swazi youth accuse SADC of double standards
» 19.03.2009 - Court releases opposition leader
» 16.03.2009 - There is a coup in Madagascar...!
» 12.03.2009 - Gambian opposition formally charged
» 12.03.2009 - Bennett released on bail
» 09.03.2009 - Opposition leader arrested
» 05.03.2009 - Police on high alert as demonstrations hit Nairobi
» 05.03.2009 - Government restricts opposition ahead of elections
» 04.03.2009 - Egyptian internet activists freed
» 02.03.2009 - Ethiopian press ordered to re-register
» 25.02.2009 - Rights organisation calls for speedy trial for detained activist
» 25.02.2009 - Appeal court upholds editor’s sentence
» 23.02.2009 - Reform electoral commission – HRW
» 18.02.2009 - Burundi senators reject bill criminalising homosexuality
» 17.02.2009 - Egypt truckers strike enters fourth day
» 17.02.2009 - British missionary in court again
» 12.02.2009 - Egyptian lawmaker slapped with two year jail term
» 11.02.2009 - Bouteflika to run for third term
» 03.02.2009 - Body of murdered journalist found in forest
» 02.02.2009 - Court overturns jail terms for 4 editors
» 29.01.2009 - Cameroon accused of violence to silence opposition
» 21.01.2009 - Three Eritrean Christians die in military camps
» 16.01.2009 - Journalists organisation criticises new media law
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