Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on Friday called for a thorough investigation into the murder of Congolese journalist, Guillain Chanjabo, aged 58. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on Thursday said it had written to South Sudan President, Salva Kiirr, to express concern over ''the deteriorating state of press freedom'' in his country. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The declaration of war against illegal miners, whose activities degrade the environment, pollute water bodies, cause deaths and trigger violence, was one of the main stories highlighted in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The declaration of emergency rule in three States worst hit by violence - Adamawa, Borno, Yobe - which has now developed into a "war situation" in those areas, was the major story in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Thursday wrote to US Secretary of State John Kerry, asking him to include in his discussions at the African Union (AU) Summit the issue of press freedom in Africa. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – In protest against Monday's car bomb attack in Benghazi which killed three persons and injured scores of others, media houses in Libya will not function Thursday, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The recent breakdown of law and order, resulting in the mass killing of persons, including security operatives, women and children, was the major story in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A huge market fire on Sunday at a popular market in Accra, known for second hand clothing, shoes and building materials, and the end of a crippling doctors’ strike were some of the stories reported in the Ghana media this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Wednesday strongly condemned the violent attack against two Ghanaian journalists, Frank Worlanyo and Thomas Attram, reporter and cameraman respectively from Metropolitan Television (Metro TV), an Accra-based privately-owned TV station. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi President Joyce Banda has said she will not be stampeded into signing the 'Table Mountain Declaration' that urges governments in Africa to abolish “insult laws” and set free press high on the agenda. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Authorities in Mauritania have granted broadcast licences to two new Television stations -- Dava and ‘Al Mourabitounes, official sources told PANA here Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Jonathan-Labour tirade against each other over corruption, the growing number of jobless people and Boko Haram's new strategy of violence were the main stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A ruling by the Supreme Court that its own verdict on a petition challenging the election of a president could be reviewed and the continuing strikes by doctors and pharmacists dominated the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Gambian journalists on Friday asked the government to stop harassing them, saying this does not only tarnish the image of he country but also retards professionalism and overall development of the media.Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The Executive Secretary of Rwanda High Council of the Media (HCM), Emmanuel Mugisha, on Friday denounced a recent report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which named Rwanda among the countries that gag the press.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the African Union (AU) to champion the call for the release of all journalists imprisoned in Africa and appeal for justice in the murders of journalists killed in the line of duty. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the World Press Freedom Day is observed Friday, the umbrella Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Thursday released its 2013 Impunity Index, saying unpunished, deadly violence continues to plague the press globally, and has notably increased in Nigeria. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Over sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed the right of every person “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers,” that right remains in peril in far too many countries, according to US Ambassador to Tanzania Alfonso E. Lenhardt. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The killing of 185 people in a border community in north eastern Borno State, the damning report by top US official that massive corruption exists, and government's compensation for victims of the 2011 post-election violence were the major stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The ongoing strike by medical doctors in public health facilities in Ghana, which is causing huge pain and deaths, was the main story that dominated the newspapers in the West African country this week. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has written to Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza urging him not to sign the country's New Media Law, which was adopted by the Senate 19 April 2013. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's National Assembly has passed the controversial Protection of State Information Bill with an overwhelming majority, after years of debate. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The association of media professionals in Burundi Wednesday petitioned the government, urging President Pierre Nkurunziza not to sign the recently-adopted press bill into law. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's desire to grant amnesty to the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, the threat by the Niger Delta militants to carry out reprisal attacks on mosques and Jonathan's political ambition in 2015 were the major stories in Nigeria this week.Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – An assessment of President John Dramani Mahama's 100 days in office, the two-day visit to Ghana of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the election petition before the Supreme Court and the ongoing strikes by a number of public sector workers were some of the stories covered by the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – Ethiopian journalist, Reeyot Alemu, who is serving a five-year sentence, is the winner of the 2013 World Press Freedom prize - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano - in recognition of her “exceptional courage, resistance and commitment to freedom of expression”, the jury said on Tuesday.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Tuesday urged Sierra Leonean President, Ernest Bai Koroma, to respect the independence of his country's Independent Media Commission (IMC) in carrying out its regulatory mandate. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Ms Pansy Tlakula, the Commissioner and Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, over the “increasing level of attacks against journalists and media houses in the country.” Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said the adoption of a new media law by Burundi’s National Assembly on 3 April ''is an attempt to curtail free speech and independent journalism''. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Fresh Abacha loot, discovered by the government, two baby thieves arrested by the police, demand for compensation by Boko Haram victims, looming power and fuel scarcity, and corruption in the civil service were some of the stories reported in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Unending labour agitations and President John Mahama’s announcement of an improvement in electricity supply were some of the stories highlighted by the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday condemned reports in the Kenyan media over the level of witness cooperation in cases relating to some public figures in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Plans to grant amnesty to members of the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram group, labour's threat to protest pensions fraud and the need for the government to renegotiate oil deals were the main stories in Nigerian newspapers this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - “Huge” ex-gratia payment to members of parliament in the midst of labour agitations and the filing of tax returns by President John Mahama were some of the stories highlighted by the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra- based sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has welcome the release of detained Malian journalist, Boukary Daou who was granted bail by a magistrate court, PANA report from here Friday. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A bill mandating anyone wishing to practice journalism in Burundi to have a university diploma in information and communication sciences elicited protests on Thursday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Muhammed Garba, has been elected President of Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), at the third FAJ Congress in Casablanca, Morocco, according to the local VANGUARD newspaper. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The sentencing of Henry Okah to 24 years in jail, oil theft, government's latest stand on oil subsidy and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's warning that the nation could be headed for another civil war were the main stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Labour unrest, change of guard in the Ghana Armed Forces and reshuffle of top officers of the Ghana Police Service were some of the stories reported in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A crippling strike by teachers and wild allegations on the cause of an accident involving the vehicle of the running mate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 2012 election, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, were some of the stories played up in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death of literary icon Chinua Achebe, Monday's lorry park suicide bombing in Kano, former president Olusegun Obasanjo's warning that mounting unemployment situation may explode into crisis and Labour's warning to President Jonathan not to increase fuel prices were the major stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Friday welcomed Togo's Constitutional Court's rejection of ''repressive amendments'' to a media law that granted the state-run media regulator sweeping powers of censorship. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has condemned Togo's police for firing rubber bullets and teargas to disperse protesting journalists in the West African country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the new head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, State pardon for Diepreye Alamieyesiegha, President Goodluck Jonathan's former boss in South South Bayelsa State, and labour's threat of a nationwide protest on the plight of pensioners were the main stories this week in Nigeria. Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Association of journalists in Burkina Faso (AJB) on Wednesday condemned the arrest of Malian journalist Boukary Daou and demanded his release. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The sub-regional rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has supported Togo's media groups for staging a news blackout in protest against a new law recently passed by the country’s parliament, PANA reports Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian media on Tuesday organised a blackout to press demands for the release of the editorial director of privately-owned newspaper in the country.Full text...

Lomé,Togo (PANA) - The overwhelming majority of the Togolese media on Tuesday observed a blackout to protest against the law strengthening the administrative and disciplinary powers of the Supreme Audiovisual and Communication Authority (HAAC), the media regulatory body.Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian communication minister, Mr. Hamdi Ould Mahjoub, on Tuesday approved applications for the creation of three privately-owned television stations.Full text...