Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese security organ has suspended the publication of an opposition daily newspaper, which it accuses of breaching laws and violating press regulations. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The resignation of a key member of the opposition Convention People’s Party (CPP), the celebration of the 30th anniversary of a coup staged by former President Jerry John Rawlings and a freak accident that claimed 27 lives were some of the stories highlighted by the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian media, rounding off their reportage of events in the last week of 2011, feasted on the Christmas-day bomb attacks by the Boko Haram islamic sect and the low level of performance in sports. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A controversial judgement debt paid out to a Ghanaian businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the work of a committee set up by the Chief Justice to investigate the swapping of a cocaine exhibit and government's rating of its performance were some of the stories featured in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian newspapers this week feasted on the continuing debate on government's plan to remove oil subsidy, the latest oil spill in the restive Niger Delta and the lingering university teachers' strike. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned an Ethiopian court recent ruling against two Swedish reporters, Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, calling the ruling "a travesty of justice”, PANA reported Friday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The two Swedish journalists, found guilty Wednesday by an Ethiopian court, should be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International (AI) and the Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, have said.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's budget of "fiscal consolidation, inclusive growth and job creation," his passionate appeal to Nigerians to listen to him on the need to remove the subsidy on petroleum products, the crippling strike by university lecturers and the emergence of the first female air force pilot dominated newspaper pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - In the aftermath of long celebrations of Tanzania’s 50th independence anniversary, the country’s mainstream media this week partly focused on the future and international relations, with one daily stating that Tanzanians need no lecturers on what is best for them. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghanaian media this week feasted on the incredible story of cocaine that was tendered as evidence in court turning into sodium bicarbonate, causing a huge embarrassment to the government that has been at pains to check the drug menace. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Several rights groups under the banner of Coalition for Human Rights in the Gambia (CHRG) on Friday hailed the recent legal action instituted by the Hydara family and their backers as the "right step towards ensuring justice" in the 2004 assassination of journalist Deyda Hydara. Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia Press Union (GPU), in collaboration with the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Association of Non-Governmental Organization (TANGO), will Friday, 16 December, 2011, commemorate the seventh anniversary of the murder of Deyda Hydara, proprietor and managing editor of The Point newspaper in Gambia, PANA reports from here.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan media group has voiced concerns over the safety of three of its journalists who broke a story about possible police complicity and direct involvement with an international drug-trafficking syndicate, which led to the killings of several top cops. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The massacre of more than a dozen Fulani herdsmen in northern Ghana, a meeting between President John Evans Atta Mills and UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon in New York and the short-lived gold rush were some of the stories that were played up in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Wednesday's explosion in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, which left seven people dead and many more badly injured, the continuing oil subsidy debate, the same-sex bill and the crippling strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) dominated front pages in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian newspapers were this week filled with stories from the continuing debate on oil subsidy removal, the "death" of the same-sex (gay) bill and demand for Obasanjo's trial by some parliamentarians. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A huge confusion in the party of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, a gold rush in the coastal town of Elmina and tussle between the authorities and “witches” over plans to close down a “witches’ home” dominated the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, “for vilifying journalists in public remarks,” PANA reported from here Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A Libyan journalist, Nasser Hadar, has won the 2011 Hans Friedrich German Foundation award for television journalism. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – Workers of Radio France International (RFI) will begin an indefinite strike on Monday, trades union sources told PANA on Saturday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The commencement of debate on the government’s 2012 budget presented to Parliament last week, the assurance by the government that it would not overspend next year, which is an election year, and work on a gas plant to boost electricity generation were some of the stories featured in the Ghanaian newspapers this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian media were this week filled with stories of the popular comedian who deservedly got justice from the courts, continuing mayhem in Barkin-Ladi, the dismissal of the chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, and the unveiling of sponsors of the Boko Haram sect.Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) has called on African governments to take “bold initiatives” towards ending the “unbearable impunity the perpetrators of the worst crimes against journalists enjoy” on the continent.Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania has issued licences to two television and five radio stations, paving the way for them to begin operation, PANA learnt from official sources here. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese Ombudsman, Serigne Diop, has been elected head of the Association of Ombudsmen and Mediators of the Francophonie (AOMF), according to an official statement received by PANA Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Security issues, ranging from the Boko Haram attacks to the discovery of a large cache of arms and ammunition, and the debates for and against the removal of oil subsidy were the main stories in Nigeria this week.Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The presentation of the government’s 2012 budget and economic policy last Wednesday and the continuing debate on the biometric register for the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections occupied the front pages of newspapers in Ghana during the week. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Twenty-five African journalists received their diplomas Wednesday from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD), Senegal, after undergoing three years of training at the Centre of Studies in Information Sciences and Techniques (CESTI) here. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Calls by President John Evans Atta Mills for the preservation of peace as Ghana approaches another election, assurance that prisoners would be allowed to vote as pronounced by the Supreme Court and a judgement by former president Jerry John Rawlings that he is the best ever Ghanaian leader were some of the stories highlighted by the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Plans to clean up Ogoniland following the massive oil spills in the area and the continuing security and oil subsidy concerns were the major stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi's desperate efforts to mend fences with Western donor nations, especially Great Britain, that suspended aid over human rights and governance concerns, dominated the headlines this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Gays wriggled their way back to the front pages of Ghana’s newspapers again this week as the country reacted to threats by the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, that his government would withhold aid from countries that do not reform legislation that ban homosexuality. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The appointment of former Super Eagles captain, Stephen Keshi, as national team coach, developments in the oil sector over subsidy removal, compensation for slain ad-hoc electoral workers and the return of toll gates on federal highways made headline news in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Workers with the National Radio and Television of Burundi (RTNB) Thursday began a five-day strike to press for higher wages and better working conditions, PANA learnt here from the workers' union sources. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Government of Angola has hailed the state-run news agency, ANGOP, for providing timely and credible information for the people of the country. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A devastating flood that hit Accra last Thursday bringing it its wake deaths, destruction, pain, discomfort and yet another reaction by the authorities occupied the media in Ghana this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The firing on Friday of Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia because he failed to take Nigeria to the 2012 African Nations Cup to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea topped all other stories in the country this week. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – France is commited to respect for press freedom in Morocco and elsewhere, the spokesman of the French ministry of foreign affairs, Bernard Valero, said on Thursday in Paris. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian House of Representatives has condemned "in strongest terms" the manner of arrest of four senior editors of the Opposition Nation Newspapers and the legal counsel to Vintage Press, publishers of the newspapers. Full text...

Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi's uphill efforts to normalise relationship with Western donors dominated the headlines this week. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The two-week-old strike by medical doctors in public hospitals that is wreaking havoc in the health sector and the death of Libya’s former ruler, Mouammar Kadhafi, occupied the front pages of newspapers in Ghana this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Thursday's death of former Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi overshadowed all other stories in Nigeria this week. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan newspapers offered a cautious approval to the elimination of former Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi, saying it should serve as a lesson to sections of African dictators that the peoples wish would ultimately prevail. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Plans by the federal government to end the regime of subsidizing petroleum products and president Goodluck Jonathan's job-creation scheme for 3,600 youths capped a week filled with all sorts of stories - the good, the bad and the ugly - in Nigeria. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A crippling strike by doctors in the public sector and last weekend’s visit to Ghana by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan were some of the major stories highlighted in the Ghanaian media this week. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Though all the four arrested editors and three other staffers of Nigeria's opposition newspaper, The Nation, have been freed, the House of Representatives has ordered a probe into the issue. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The last of the four editors of a Nigerian opposition newspaper, who were arrested Tuesday following a petition by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been freed by the police, the local media reported Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Three of the four editors of a Nigerian opposition newspaper, and three other staffers, who were arrested and detained on Tuesday, have been freed by the police, even as their arrest continues to generate widespread reaction across the country. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The New-York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Tuesday charged Gambia’s Justice Minister Edward Gomez to shed light on the fate of missing journalist, Chief Ebrima Manneh. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian non-governmental organization, the 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 arrest of four journalists and other workers of the opposition Nation newspaper. Full text...