Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom body, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Wednesday condemned the suspension of radio ‘’Liberté’’ and the arrest of 9 of its journalists in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Ghana-based sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Wednesday demanded “an end to hostilities against the media in Mali,” PANA reported from here.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom body, Committee to Protect Jouranlists (CPJ), on Monday said ''Togolese authorities should ensure that security forces allow journalists to do their jobs'' and that officers involved in ''acts of abuse of journalists are held to account.'' Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The media freedom body, Committee to Protect Journalists, (CPJ) has called for the immediate release of two journalists in DR Congo. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The deepening rift in Ghana’s ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), which is threatening its survival, and the continuing debate on the authenticity of economic statistics released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) were some of the major stories highlighted in the media this week. Full text...

Ankara, Turkey (PANA) - Participants at the Turkey-Africa Media Forum which ended Thursday in Ankara, the Turkish capital, have agreed to establish a common platform to promote better media cooperation between Africa and Turkey. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom body, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Wednesday issued a statement saying "Ethiopia's new printing directive equals to censorship." Full text...

Ankara, Turkey (PANA) - African media have been urged to help foster stronger relations between the continent and Turkey. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Protecting hard-won gains in press freedom, improving safety for journalists and ending impunity for crimes against them were the the main concerns expressed by participants who attended UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2012 conference in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, held from 4 to 5 May. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian government's deliberate measures to exterminate malaria, reactions to the ongoing oil subsidy report and revelations, and the never-ending cases of violence across the country were the main stories in Nigerian newspapers this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are battling to win the hearts of voters on which of them is a better manager of the economy. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global media rights watchdog, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Wednesday condemned the attack on a freelance journalist, Noel Tadegnon, who was assaulted by Togo security forces and had his camera confiscated. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - African Union (AU) Commission Chair Jean Ping Thursday saluted journalists for their courage, on the occasion of the ‘World Press Freedom Day’ which is observed annually 3 May. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Superficial research and improper verification of facts in the daily news menu indicate that truth has become a victim of such deficiencies in several African media, Tanzania’s Minister of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture Emmanuel Nchimbi said here Thursday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will observe the ‘World Press Freedom Day’ (3 May) with a clarion call for the “release of all journalists” held for their professional activities around the globe. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Journalists under the banner of the Gambia Press Union (GPU), Tuesday renewed calls for a “proper investigation” into the 2004 slaying of Deyda Hydara, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Suicide bombers' attack on media houses was the main story in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Politics, especially the rising temperature and increasing tension between the two biggest parties - the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) - dominated the headlines in the Ghanaian media this week, as the December presidential and parliamentary elections approach. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) on Friday condemned in “the strongest terms”, the attacks against two Nigerian newspapers, the two press freedom bodies said in a joint statement. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Thursday's bombing of the offices of private Thisday newspaper in Nigeria. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - UNESCO will celebrate the World Press Freedom Day on 3 May in Tunis with a packed three-day programme of events on the role of the media as a catalyst for social and political change.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The mind-boggling revelation of the rot in the oil sector and the jailing of former Delta State governor, James Ibori, dominated media spaces this week in Nigeria. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The media in Ghana this week spent nearly all their air and inch space on an extremely volatile statement by an outspoken opposition MP, who claimed he had declared war in Ghana following alleged violence against some of his party members in the ongoing voter registration exercise. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom watchdog, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), onThursday expressed concern about the “plight of journalists” in Guinea-Bissau following the 12 April military takeover in the West African country. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on Friday urged the Kenyan authorities to investigate "threats" made against two journalists, Osinde Obare and David Musindi. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The appointment of a local coach for the senior national football team, the Black Stars, and the launch of the “Green Book” that catalogues the “achievements” of the government in the past three years were some of the stories highlighted in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - A “unique radio programme” that seeks to accelerate development in Africa through “personal transformation” was Wednesday launched in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and will be replicated in other countries across the continent on Saturday, the organizers said in a statement made available to PANA. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Friday called for the immediate release of two detained journalists in Somaliland, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration that he did not commit any crime over the "gift" of a church building, the mass rape of teenage female students by armed robbers, and the demand for compensation from Shell for oil spill were the main stories this week in Nigeria. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The sudden emergence of a 55-year-old man claiming to be a son of Ghana’s first president and pan-Africanist, Dr. Kwame Nrumah, as well as efforts to reconcile former President Jerry John Rawlings and his chosen heir and incumbent President John Evans Atta Mills occupied the front pages of Ghanaian newspapers this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Underlining his government’s commitment to press freedom, Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has called on the rapidly expanding local media to observe professional ethics and their moral duty to encourage national cohesion. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's rising debt profile, poor results from last week's university entrance examinations, Okonjo-Iweala's desire to grab World Bank's top job and Jonathan's optimism on security filled the front pages this week.Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Rumours of the formation of a new party by Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings, the naming of the running mate of the main opposition party’s presidential candidate and the military coup in Mali were some of the stories reported in Ghana’s media this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Ousmane Sy Savané, the Director General of Cylcone, a pro-Gbagbo publishing company, was reportedly picked up and detained by Ivorian Police, PANA confirmed from here Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso as Mediator in the Malian crisis, which prompted the military coup that toppled the country's elected government last week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A nationwide power outage last Wednesday night, the suspension of Kofi Adams, an aide of former President Jerry Rawlings, from the ruling National Democratic Party, hullabaloo over government’s “boycott” for some radio stations because of “bias” against it were some of the stories that were played up in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Government's resolve to cut workers' salaries, self-approved jumbo allowances for lawmakers, bribery scandal in the legislature, court order on Shell to compensate communities for oil spill dominated front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Jerry Cole, a senior television cameraman with the state-owned Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), was attacked by supporters of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) in Freetown, the sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), reported Tuesday.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced on Monday that it will soon launch a mediation process in Mali, where Tuareg rebels have launched a rebellion against the government since January, leaving many dead and sending thousands fleeing to neighbouring countries. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The shutdown of the Kainji Power Station, the pledge by northern political leaders to deal with security problems and yet another apology from the South African government over the deportation saga with Abuja dominated the front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Two controversial subjects – claims of the main opposition party’s presidential candidate that he would make education free through to second cycle and relocation of a gas plant - were some of the stories played up by the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzanian newspapers this week highlighted the end of a strike by medical doctors working in government hospitals following intervention by President Jakaya Kikwete who described their action as "unethical". Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congolese newspapers published this week were dominated by last Sunday's funeral of 145 of the 223 victims of the 4 March ammunition depot blast in northeast Brazzaville. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Tuesday expressed alarm over threats made against Liberian journalist, Mae Azango, while urging President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf “to ensure the journalist’s safety”,Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The killing of two Europeans by their abductors as well as the deportation of 125 Nigerians from South Africa overshadowed all other stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Gender equality and the second strike by doctors in public hospitals this year were issues that dominated the Tanzanian newspapers this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – President John Evans Atta Mills’ official visit to the US and the 55th independence anniversary celebrations were some of the stories that occupied the front pages of newspapers in Ghana this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Following the killing of yet another Somali journalist, Ali Ahmed Abdi, the global media rights body -- International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) -- on Monday expressed “total dismay over the serial killing of Journalists” in Somalia, PANA reports. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Ghanaian newspapers this week remembered an uprising triggered by the killing of three ex-military men by the colonial masters which accelerated the country’s independence and an “explosion” of the immediate past Attorney-General (A-G), Martin Amidu, as he questions the loyalty of state-attorneys pursuing the court case in which a businessman is charged with fraud in a raging judgement debt case. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The burial of the former military leader of Biafra, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and James Ibori's admittance, in London, that he stole from the government coffers when he was in power as State governor dominated front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...