A Mexican crime reporter missing since January 2007 was killed by members of the Los Zetas drug cartel, only a few days after he wrote an article about the gang’s drug trafficking activities in Mexico’s southeastern state of Tabasco. The article mentioned the names of some of the drug cartel members. Rodolfo Rincón Taracena, an […]

Three journalists from the African sports network M-Net SuperSport were kidnapped in the Niger Delta Region on Monday, but one has since escaped from his captors and fled to safety, according to news reports. A fourth journalist was reportedly shot during the kidnapping and taken to hospital, reports said. Cameraman Alexander Effiong “took a big […]

A Somali correspondent was allegedly beaten by court security guards last Wednesday in Puntland, the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, according to a 25 February statement by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). Ahmed Ibrahim Nor from Mogadishu-based Radio Simba was recording proceedings in the high court of Bosaso, capital of Puntland, when he was […]

A pamphlet signed by a shadowy group known only as “Los Doce del Patíbulo” has threatened five journalists in the city of Cartago, Colombia with death, according to local newspaper El Diario. The pamphlet, first circulated on 21 February, says that individuals who are opposed to current Cartago mayor Germán González Osorio, and who have […]