Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Different developments made headlines in Tanzania’s newspapers this week, but the plea for leniency by intern doctors who were suspended from service in public hospitals after going on strike attracted the attention of all dailies. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambian police are pressing more charges against Babucarr Ceesay, one of the two embattled journalists recently detained for seeking permission to hold a peaceful demonstration over the execution of nine death-row prisoners, PANA confirmed Thursday. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - An opposition youth leader in Gambia has frowned on the recent arbitrary closure of media houses by the government in the tiny West African country where press freedom and free expression are ranked very low by various media watchdogs. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Civil Society Associations Gambia (CSAG) and Gambia Press Union (GPU)-USA branch, Tuesday "roundly and unequivocally" condemned the Gambian government for closing down two media houses, the 'Daily News' and 'Standard Newspaper'. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian regulatory body for print media, the National Press Council (NPC), Monday lifted the suspension it slammed on six newspapers that support former president Laurent Gbagbo. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria, (PANA) - State security agents in the Gambia have ordered two independent newspapers to cease publication immediately, without explanation, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a statement made available to PANA Tuesday, quoting local media reports. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan newspapers in the outgoing week focused on the ongoing civil servants' strikes, the state's failure to deal with the conflict in the Tana River Delta and the state visit by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mauritanian newspapers were this week awash with stories on the killing of Muslim preachers, including Mauritanians, by a unit of the regular Malian army. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – A two-day Pan-African Conference on Safety of Journalists and Issue of Impunity, hosted by the African Union (AU) Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ends Saturday, the organizers announced Saturday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The launch of a sanitation programme by President John Dramani Mahama and the raging debate on the creation of 45 new constituencies for the 7 December presidential and parliamentary elections dominated the media in Ghana this week.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Gambian Police on Monday charged two detained journalists, Baboucarr Ceesay and Abubacarr Saidykhan, before granting them bail, PANA confirmed from here. Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – The Superior Council of the Audiovisual Communication (CSAC), the regulatory organ for the media in DR Congo (DRC), has warned journalists in the country not to disclose defence secrets of the national army in war periods. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan newspapers were awash with stories on the failure of government to tackle insecurity and reckless killings, which they said, could lead to the loss of moral authority to govern and a further slide to total anarchy ahead of next year’s General Elections. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The discovery of oil in the Lake Chad Basin, President Goodluck Jonathan's strategy to guarantee constant electricity and the new phase of terrorist attacks dominated newspaper front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The death of a local television reporter at the hands of policemen and the ensuing public condemnation of the Tanzania Police Force made blazing headlines in the country’s newspapers this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – President John Dramani Mahama’s policy statement and the unending tug-of-war on the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to create 45 new constituencies as demanded by law following the publication of new census figures and creation of new districts choked the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based media rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Thursday said that two Guinean journalists, Emmanuel Millimono and Miss Aissatou Diakité, were manhandled and detained by Guinean Police. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Stolen oil money totalling US$400 billion since independence in 1960, President Goodluck Jonathan's pledge to fix the economy by 2013 and the sudden resignation of Power Minister Barth Nnaji dominated newspapers in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The progress of Tanzania’s population and housing census remained in focus, though not the highlight of the local newspapers this week as they made their own way on different topics. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The overwhelming endorsement of President John Dramani Mahama as presidential candidate of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the launch of the manifesto of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) were some of the major stories highlighted by the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based press freedom watchdog, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Wednesday said that six journalists from two privately-owned FM stations have been beaten by a group of men believed to be supporters of the ruling People’s Rally of Guinea (RPG).Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) on Monday said they have launched a regional training programme with a view to improve safety of journalists. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's performance contract with ministers, a rare oil find in an unlikely place and the intention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to launch the 5,000 naira note next year dominated front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Ivorian authorities should halt censorship of critical news outlets and investigate an armed assault on the offices of a publishing group, the media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said on Saturday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The call by President John Dramani Mahama for love, when he addressed Muslims at the Eid-Ul-Fitr prayers on Sunday, and preparations of the party said to be sponsored by former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings were some of the stories that were highlighted by the media in Ghana this week.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Wednesday said the North Star FM, a privately-owned radio, was besieged by members of Al-Sunna, a Muslim sect in Ghana. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Team Nigeria's dismal performance at the recently-concluded London Olympic Games, President Goodluck Jonathan's reaction to the "debacle" and the growing unemployment rate dominated front pages this week in Nigeria. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Last Wednesday’s maiden radio and television broadcast by President John Dramani Mahama, a controversial legislative instrument to create 45 new constituencies and crowds streaming to President John Evans Atta Mills’ grave were some of the stories highlighted by the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The sub-regional press freedom body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Friday called on the Gambian government to allow Teranga FM Radio resume broadcasting. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Journalists, under the banner of the Gambia Press Union (GPU), have expressed dismay over the closure of Teranga FM Radio and urged government ''to reverse its decision without delay'', PANA reported from here Friday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has asked the authorities in Djibouti to immediately release a journalist, Houssein Ahmed Farah, working for an opposition news website. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Thursday condemned the shutting down of Taranga FM radio station in Gambia while calling on the authorities to re-open the station immediately. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian government has ordered the privately-owned Teranga FM radio, based in Sinchu Alagie village in Kombo north district in the West Cost Region off the air, Teranga radio manager, Ismaila Ceesay, told PANA in Banjul Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Nigerian authorities to immediately investigate an attack, at a government hospital, on a photographer seeking to cover the release of the remains of June's air crash victims to their families. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Monday said that the Ivorian authorities had banned ''Bôl’ Kotch',' a privately-owned satirical newspaper for publishing a cartoon story of President Alassane Ouatarra.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on Friday called on Ethiopian authorities to release a detained journalist and allow three Muslim news outlets resume publishing immediately. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The funeral of Ghana’s late president John Evans Atta Mills that brought the country to a standstill in an unprecedented show of grief and unity, and the swearing in of the governor of the central bank, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, as vice president dominated the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Tuesday said members of an Islamist militant group attacked a radio journalist, Malick Aliou Maïga, in Mali on Sunday and ordered his station off the air, PANA reports from here Wednesday.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Monday condemned Gabon's state-run media regulator for suspending two private newspapers, ''Ezombolo'' and ''La Une''. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The one-week customary activities in honour of the late president John Evans Atta Mills, determination of his final resting place and nomination of Central Bank governor Kwesi Amissah- Arthur as vice president were some of the stories highlighted in the Ghana media this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The nationwide strike by teachers in Tanzania’s public schools, that truncated learning by pupils and students while it lasted, made headlines in local papers this week until the High Court ruled the protest illegal. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The global press freedom body International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the 31 July killing of Abdi Jeylani Malaq, a media worker in Mogadishu, Somalia. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Tuesday's sudden death of Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills dominated newspapers in the West African nation throughout the week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The sub-regional media rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Friday called on the police in Sierra Leone to investigate an alleged attack on an independent community radio station.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Tuesday's sudden death of Ghana President John Atta Mills got a major play in most newspapers in Nigeria Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An activist serving life imprisonment with hard labour for printing and distributing T-shirts calling for an end to dictatorship in The Gambia must be freed, global rights body, Amnesty International (AI), has said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The authorities in Sudan must stop their crackdown on press coverage of the ongoing protests in Khartoum and allow the media to report independently without fear of retaliation, the media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has said.Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – “Secret” meetings between Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills and former President Jerry John Rawlings, and revelations of more judgement debts dominated the media this week. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – A Mauritanian opposition party, the Progressive Popular Alliance (APP), has accused a pro-government radio station of encouraging the "the retrograde practice of slavery through some of its programmes". Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The explosion of a fully-loaded fuel tanker, bloodbath in Jos and the appointment of the first woman chief justice were the major stories in Nigeria this week.Full text...