A year ago today, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military-backed coup after attempting to hold a referendum on removing the constitutional one-term limit to his presidency.  Since the coup and the subsequent election of Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa as president in November, journalists have been murdered in increasing numbers – and with […]

Honduran radio reporter Israel Zelaya Diaz was shot dead yesterday, becoming the ninth journalist killed in Honduras this year. According to the Associated Press, national police say gunmen kidnapped the veteran journalist in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on Tuesday. His body was found hours later in a sugar cane plantation near the […]

Sheikh Nur Mohamed Abkey, a journalist working with the Somali government-run radio station, Radio Mogadishu, was murdered by gunmen last night in Mogadishu, according to reports from local Somali press freedom advocates. Abkey was reportedly walking through Mogadishu’s Bakara market yesterday morning when he was abducted by hooded gunmen. According to an emailed statement from […]

Radio station director Barkhad Awale Adan was killed yesterday amidst fighting between Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and Islamist insurgent group Al Shabab in Mogadishu, the National Union of Somali Journalists reported.Adan, 60, who ran the community station Hurma Radio, was fixing a transmitter on the roof of the station when he was hit by fire […]