A total of eight casualties have been confirmed following attacks on media houses in Nigeria on Thursday, April 26. Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack. A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car drove into the offices of ThisDay newspaper in Abuja, while a bomb was thrown at a building […]

In Somalia, a nation of ever-shifting fortunes, the first few months of 2012 have been particularly deadly for the media. Four journalists have been killed in the war-weary East African state this year – one each month. Only Syria has been more dangerous. Numerous other Somali journalists have been wounded in or narrowly escaped assassination […]

How precious freedom is can better be explained by those who have suffered and struggled for it. This is what my personal experience dictates. On September 4, 2010, I was abducted. Before that, I was a free man roaming around without any care or caution. Even that fateful night, I was laughing in the company […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of publishers, editors and leading journalists, condemned in the strongest possible terms today’s bomb attacks on Nigerian newspaper buildings. A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car drove into the offices of ThisDay newspaper in Abuja, killing at least six people, while a bomb was thrown at a […]