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Government lifts three-week-old ban on texting

SMS messaging was restored today in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after being suspended throughout the country on the government’s orders on 3 (...)

Published on 28 December 2011 Read

Ethiopia

Two Swedish journalists sentenced to 11 years in prison

Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, the two Swedish journalists who were convicted by an Addis Ababa court on 21 December on charges of entering (...)

Published on 27 December 2011 Read

Ethiopia

Letter from Reporters Without Borders to U.N. Special Rapporteur on abuse of anti-terrorism law

Freedom of the press has deteriorated considerably in Ethiopia this year, with a dozen journalists arrested in the past few weeks and the fate of (...)

Published on 20 December 2011 Read

Zimbabwe

Detained Media Monitoring Project staff freed on bail

Reporters Without Borders notes that three detained representatives of the Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe – advocacy officers Fadzai (...)

Published on 20 December 2011 Read

Somalia

Reporter shot dead in Mogadishu is fourth journalist killed this year in Somalia

Reporters Without Borders expresses its deepest sympathy to the family and colleagues of the journalist Abdisalan Sheikh Hassan, shot dead (...)

Published on 19 December 2011 Read

Africa

Eritrean journalist freed in Khartoum, Sudanese newspaperwoman detained

The Eritrean editorial writer and journalist, Jamal Osman Hamad, who runs the website adoulis.com, was released by Sudanese security forces in (...)

Published on 16 December 2011 Read

Burundi

Three questions to Radio Publique Africaine manager Eric Manirakiza

Eric Manirakiza, the manager of Burundi’s privately-owned Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), visited Reporters Without Borders headquarters in Paris (...)

Published on 15 December 2011 Read

Benin

Benin press regulators halt publication of daily Le Béninois libéré

Reporters Without Borders is perplexed at the indefinite closure of the newspaper Le Béninois Libéré, ordered by the High Authority for Broadcasting (...)

Published on 12 December 2011 Read

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