On 22 March, the Colombo office of Sirasa TV and Radio was attacked by a mob that arrived in a bus in broad daylight and started throwing stones at the building, damaging the glass and several vehicles. According to the Sunday Times, the staff of the Sirasa office retaliated by throwing stones and using water […]

Colombian radio journalist Clodomiro Castilla was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on 19 March. Castilla, editor of the Colombian magazine El Pulso del Tiempo and an announcer and reporter with local radio station La Voz de Monteria (www.vozmonteria.com), was reading on the terrace of his home when a gunman on a motorcycle shot him several times and […]

Voice of America (VOA) began satellite broadcasts of its Amharic-language programs to Ethiopia this week after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi ordered that VOA’s broadcasts be blocked. The prime minister told reporters on 18 March that VOA was broadcasting “destabilizing propaganda” and that he had ordered the broadcasts to be blocked, Reuters reported. Zenawi said […]

A Somali journalist was ordered by an Al Shabab court to leave the port city of Kismayo within 36 hours on Monday, local sources told IPI today. Mohamed Salad Abdulle, a reporter with Bardera-based Markabley Radio and other Somali broadcasters, including Somaliweyn radio, was detained in Kismayo on 15 March, IPI reported at the time. […]