Three Ethiopian journalists arrested this summer and charged with terrorism appeared before an Addis Ababa court last week.  Their respective cases, along with that of two Swedish journalists detained in eastern Ethiopia in July, have deepened suspicions that the government is using a new, vaguely-worded national security law to stifle independent media in the country. […]

Unknown assailants armed with hand grenades bombed the Radio Galkayo station in Galkayo, Puntland on 18 October, the latest in a series of attacks on journalists in the self-governing region, which is officially a part of Somalia. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) reports that the bomb was thrown from the back fence of […]

Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) cameraman Alhaji Zakariyya Isa was killed in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, apparently by members of the Islamist Boko Haram group, according to reports citing the Nigerian authorities. Two gunmen reportedly followed Isa, who worked as a Hausa translator and newscaster, from the mosque where he had just […]

Egyptian elections are coming up, Tunisia has voted for its new constitutional assembly, and Libya’s transitional government declared the country free this week.  But in Yemen, the struggle is far from over.  Protestors continue to demonstrate against the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has repeatedly refused to concede to opposition demands and leave […]