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...

New York, Nigeria (PANA) - Armed assailants on Thursday abducted and beat a veteran journalist in Mali, leaving him with a broken hand and other injuries, according to the media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Revelations of suffocating debts that the Ghana government is saddled with, because of the abrogation of contracts, once again filled the media this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Friday condemned the harsh prison sentences issued by Ethiopia’s High Court on blogger Eskinder Nega and five independent journalists Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) on Friday declared that African governments have the duty to guarantee the safety of journalists, the federation said in a statement received here by PANA. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Journalists under the banner of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) have adopted a code of conduct on how the country's media should report stories affecting children, PANA report from here Friday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan National Transitionaal Council (NTC) has demanded the unconditional release of two journalists kidnapped in the city of Bani Walid. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based press freedom body, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has said that two unidentified gunmen shot a Somali journalist, Abdulkadir Omar Abdulle, PANA reports from here Tuesday.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom body, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Friday wrote to the US government to investigate claims that the missing Gambian journalist, Chief Ebrima Manneh, is in the US. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Media watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has condemned an attack on a Togolese journalist who was covering a demonstration in the West Afrian state on Monday and called on authorities to immediately investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's resolve to deal with subsidy thieves, plans to build six new refineries, and the projected huge earnings from the export of cassava chips to China dominated front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - For months, newspapers and political commentators highlighted moves by Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu, to form and new political party, but the stories were flatly denied by their associates. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Thursday said a Togolese journalist, Ayi Atayi, has been ''violently attacked'' and his camera taken away. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Global press freedom campaigner Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the Sudanese authorities to allow journalists to cover anti-government demonstrations in the country. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The continuing mind-boggling corruption case in the lower chamber of the National Assembly (parliament), the deepening war against Islamic sect Boko Haram and the rain that continued to lash Lagos and neighbouring states were the main stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The continuing debate on President John Evans Atta Mills’ health and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) party's decision against his appearance in presidential debates for December’s election were some of the stories reported in Ghana this week. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - A Banjul Magistrate's court on Thursday sentenced the editor and publisher of a private newspaper, Today, to a fine of 100,000 delasi (US$3,400) for contempt of court. Full text...

Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Retired Television presenter and journalist, Roger Yawo Dogan, died Wednesday in Bordeaux, France, PANA learnt from family sources. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sunday's devastating terrorist attacks in Kaduna and Zaria and the arrest of the suspected mastermind of the Boko Haram bombings were the major stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – For the umpteenth time, rumours on the health of President John Evans Atta Mills captured the headlines in Ghana with the rumour mills churning out another death message. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, and the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, have called for greater protection for media professionals, citing the unacceptably high number of attacks against those disseminating news, including arbitrary arrests, torture and killings, to sexual violence against female journalists. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The global press freedom body, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has condemned the life imprisonment slammed on Hassan Ruvakiki, a Burundian Journalist. Full text...