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Cameroon – After visiting Cameroon, Reporters Without Borders urges government to take action
Reporters Without Borders visited Cameroon from 26 September to 2 October to assess the degree of media freedom during the campaign for the 9 October presidential election and to promote a series of reforms that are needed to improve media freedom, including a new media law and the decriminalization of press offences. Communication minister and government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said a national conference on media and communication will be held in 2012. “The media’s coverage of the (…)
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Somalia – Harassment and attacks on journalists in Puntland and Somaliland
With growing concern, Reporters Without Borders has registered at least eight serious press freedom violations ranging from arbitrary arrest to shooting attacks on journalists in the past two months in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland and the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland. In most of these cases, there has been no investigation and no one has been punished. “When attention is turned to Somalia, it tends to focus on the ruined capital of Mogadishu, where (…)
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Burundi – Authorities urged to lift news blackout imposed after Gatumba massacre
Reporters Without Borders wrote yesterday to President Pierre Nkurunziza and information minister Concilie Nibigira urging them to immediately lift the news blackout that has been imposed on the media following last weekend’s massacre in Gatumba. In an alarming move, the authorities have banned all live broadcasts of a political nature for a month and have forbidden the media to cover the official enquiry that has been launched into the massacre. Here is the text of the letter: Mr. Pierre (…)
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Rwanda – Rugambage murder trial – one defendant gets 10 years, other acquitted
Reporters Without Borders is very sceptical about the verdicts that a high court issued on 15 September in the trial of two men accused of the murder of Jean-Léonard Rugambage, the deputy editor of the bimonthly magazine Umuvugizi, who was shot four times at close range outside his Kigali home on 24 June 2010. One of the defendants, Didace Nduguyangu, was convicted and given a 10-year jail sentence. The other, police officer Antoine Karemera, was acquitted. The trial has not done much to (…)
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Ethiopia – Anti-terror law denounced as a serious challenge for the media, a journalist named in WikiLeaks cable flees abroad
Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today for the safety of Ethiopia’s journalists after a long-time government critic was arrested along with four opposition party members on 15 September in Addis Ababa, becoming the latest in a series of local and foreign reporters to be held on “terrorism” charges. Ethiopia’s 2009 “anti-terrorist” law has today become “the most serious challenge for the country’s journalists,” secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said, “and the arrests and other (…)
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Eritrea – Issaias Afeworki – no less dangerous than Muammar Gaddafi or Bashar al-Assad
Ten years ago, on 18 September 2001, the entire world’s eyes were still turned to New York, the target of Al Qaeda’s devastating attacks the previous week. In Asmara, the Eritrean government took advantage of this distraction to launch a brutal political purge. “To the international community’s indifference, several ministers and former generals and all the newspaper editors were thrown in jail in the space of a week,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said. (…)
