New York, US (PANA) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh must clarify his 16 March comments which suggested that detained journalist “Chief” Ebrima Manneh had died, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Thursday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Two Swedish journalists, reporting on the activities of armed separatists operating in an oil-rich province of eastern Ethiopia, have been detained without charge since Thursday in the Horn of Africa nation, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said, quoting news reports and government officials. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the prison sentence slammed on a reporter of an online news Web site on Saturday in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Deliberations in the on-going budget session of Parliament and President Bingu wa Mutharika's austerity measurers on the economy dominated the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Claims of drug money funding political campaigns, the real debt figures and public flogging of a teacher by a chief for allegedly smoking cannabis in public were played up by the Ghanaian media this week.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Illicit drugs are dreadful in Tanzania as reported by some dailies in the East African country this week, but despite the growing public worries, many young people are becoming addicted to the substances. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Army's notice of "extinction" to the dreaded Boko Haram religious sect, labour's two-week notice of a national strike to government over unpaid minimum wage, the screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate and the death of the "Lady of Songs" played up prominently in Nigeria this week.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Police arrested Faysal Mohamed, a reporter for the Hiiraan Online website, Wednesday morning in the port town of Bossasso in the semi-autonomous republic of Puntland, local journalists told Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Ethiopian government Wednesday publicly accused an editor and a columnist of involvement in a terrorism plot, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said, quoting news reports and local journalists. Full text...

Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Moroccan King Mohammed VI has named Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, the new Director-General of the Moroccan news agency, Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP), 10 months after the former CEO, Ali Bouzerda, was suspended from office. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Delegates to the Gambia Press Union's triennial Congress have elected Mr. Bai Emil Touray, the new President of the Union, the local Voice newspaper reported here Tuesday.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambian Police Intervention Unit (PIU) has arrested and detained Mr. Ahmed Alota, the Nigerian-born Executive Director of Gambia Press Union (GPU), PANA confirmed from here Tuesday. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Journalists in government-owned media organizations in Mauritania are to go on strike Thursday to press for a 10 per cent salary increase and the 50 per cent granted to other public sector employees since 2008, PANA learnt. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Efforts to tax parliamentarians, judges and all constitutional office holders and mounting pressure on Education Minister Sam Ongeri to resign over the embezzlement of US$46 million meant for free primary education dominated news headlines in Kenya this week.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – While a section of Tanzanians feel there is lack of clearness about their country’s leadership, according to one paper, another daily this week urged Africa to place in position competent leadership that will take the continent to prosperity. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The 30 June deadline for all users of mobile phones in Ghana to register their numbers or lose them, the never-ending debate on homosexuality and whether politicians should be allowed to own media houses dominated the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Renewed bomb attacks, believed to have been carried out by members of the dreaded Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram, two new satellites to be launched in July, and a hike in electricity tariff were the main stories in Nigeria during the week.Full text...

Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The regional director of the French Development Agency (FDA), based in Dakar, Stéphane Barbier, Friday described as "modest quality," facilities at the Guinean Press Agency (AGP) and pledged his institution's financial assistance to the organisation. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Gunmen from pro- and anti-government militias raided and shut two radio stations in Somalia in separate attacks on Wednesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported quoting local journalists here. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday asked the authorities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Kirumba to thoroughly investigate the murder of radio journalist, Witness-Patchelly Kambale Musonia.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release journalist Woubshet Taye, who has been held since Sunday, the committee said in a press release from its New York, US, base. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Four employees of the Wajir District Hospital attacked journalist Abdi Hassan Hussein at the hospital on Saturday, the reporter told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Full text...

London, UK (PANA) - Journalists facing imprisonment and other threats for their work are being forced into exile worldwide, with at least 649 fleeing their countries in the last decade, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a new survey conducted to mark the World Refugee Day. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Zimbabwean authorities to thoroughly investigate a suspicious break-in at a newspaper’s office on Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the detention of a German television crew and the destruction of their footage by authorities in Equatorial Guinea. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania’s media kicked off their coverage this week highlighting US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s three-day official visit to the East African country before reverting their attention to matters relating to usual public concerns. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A five-year-old chieftaincy dispute in Accra exploded into an embarrassing "coup" this week when two more claimants to the stool emerged, giving the ethnic group of the Ghanaian capital, called the people of the Ga state, three rival chiefs. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Thursday's fatal bombing of the Police headquarters in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal capital city, MKO Abiola and June 12 as well as Nwankwo Kanu's farewell match in Lagos got big newspaper play in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Police in Sierra Leone have arrested three suspects, including a police officer, for the killing of a reporter on Sunday during violent clashes over a land dispute on the outskirts of the capital Freetown, according to local journalists. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Authorities in Malawi Sunday announced they had formally registered a sensational weekly tabloid which continued circulating despite its ban in October last year. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The president of the Congolese Association of Science Journalists and Communicators (ACJS), Mr. Honore Kabongo, has urged its members to work for scientific and technological development in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The deepening power struggle in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), which its leaders fear could end up in the birth of a breakaway party by former president Jerry John Rawlings, gay issues and birth of quintuplets dominated the media in Ghana this week.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Government budget announcement rarely tastes sweet, but it always makes headlines in Tanzanian newspapers as it once again did this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The meeting between Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Barack Obama, the corruption case against the immediate past Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, as well as the retirement of soccer star Kanu Nwankwo made headline news in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Dozens of journalists from all regions of the world are breaking their silence on the sexual aggression they have endured in the course of their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced from its New York, US, base Tuesday. Full text...

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – The second congress of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) began here Saturday with representatives of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Union of Arab Journalists (UJA) in attendance.Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The much-anticipated 'zero-deficit' budget, necessitated by Malawi's worsening relations with Western donor countries and agencies over deterioration of human rights and good governance, and the continued woes of beleaguered Vice-President Joyce Banda dominated the headlines in the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The President of Yemen, Ali Abdallah Saleh has called for mediation by his Senegalese counterpart, Abdoulaye Wade, for his country to hold free and fair elections, said a statement from the presidency of Senegal, made available to PANA on Friday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The openness of gays, their indecent activities and health risks to the society occupied the front pages of Ghanaian newspapers this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Dr. Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration as Nigeria's President for the next four years, his invitation to opposition parties to partake in his new administration and the Super Eagles' swift demolition of renowned Argentine national football team dominated the media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Freedom of Information (FoI) bill, signed into law by Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Saturday, is not binding on any of the country's 36 states until it is replicated by the various State Houses of Assembly. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - The diplomatic spat between Malawi and its former colonial masters, Great Britain, sparked by Malawi's unprecedented move to expel High Commissioner Fergus Cochrane-Dyet over a leaked scathing diplomatic cable to his bosses in London, continued to dominate the Malawi media this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The role of Ghana's president John Evans Atta Mills in the investiture of Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara and corruption in the judiciary occupied the front pages in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – This week saw a mixture of issues covered by the Tanzanian press including Africa Day, efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the country’s relations with India and the battle to replace former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As expected, the inauguration on Sunday of President Goodluck Jonathan for a four-year term in office filled newspaper pages in Nigeria this past week. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Mauritanian government plans to restructure the audiovisual media sector (radio and television) under state control and open their ownership to other operators, PANA learnt Thursday from official sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following the passage of the harmonised version of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill by the National Assembly (parliament) Tuesday, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) have urged President Goodluck Jonathan to sign the bill into law. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The new Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, must launch a serious investigation into alleged harassment of journalists, including the killing of a reporter, by the country's republican forces (FRCI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday from its base in New York, US. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Ivorian newspapers this Saturday devoted their headlines to the inauguration of president Alassane Ouattara, Saturday in Yamoussoukro, the political capital of the country. Full text...