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Rights Groups Urge UN Sanctions For Burundi Officials

Rights groups on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to impose "targeted sanctions" on Burundian officials over...

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Afghanistan Launches Centre To Protect Women Journalists

Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday launched a centre to protect women journalists in Afghanistan, the second most...

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Int’l Press Bodies Urge Turkish Gov’t To Release Jailed Journalists

The representatives of a number of international press organizations have come together in a meeting in İstanbul, and...

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Woman Journalist Says Being Targeted By Sudan Islamic Hardliners

A Sudanese female journalist and critic of government policies said Sunday that she is under fire from hardliners who...

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Togo Police Fire Tear Gas At Protest For Media Rights

Police fired tear gas at hundreds of people Saturday as they marched through Togo's capital to protest the shutdown of...

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Iraqi Kurdish TV Reporter Killed In Mosul

A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed by the explosion of a roadside bomb Saturday...

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The Gambia’s Teranga FM Radio Station Closed

The authorities in The Gambia have shut down a popular radio station critical of long-serving ruler Yahya Jammeh....

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The Gambia’s Teranga FM Radio Station Closed

The authorities in The Gambia have shut down a popular radio station critical of long-serving ruler Yahya Jammeh....

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Syria Remains the World’s Most Dangerous Country For Journalists

At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said...

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Ghana Leads Africa In Violation of Press Freedom

A research by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has shown that Ghana is the leading violator of press freedom...

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Ghanaians Deserve Nothing Less Than Peace and Stability

Ghanaians deserve nothing less than peace and stability; which must be the ultimate outcome of this year’s election,...

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Longtime Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov Dies After Stroke

Uzbekistan's first and only president has died, leaving an uncertain future for a government marred by controversy....