On May 26, 2016, a Mauritanian journalist was summarily dismissed from his post for mispronouncing the name of the wife of President Mohammed Ould Abdoul Aziz.
While presenting the 7 o’clock news in Wolof (one of Mauritania’s four national languages) on the state-owned Radio Rurale, Pape Khalilou Diop mispronounced the Arabic name of the first lady, Mariem Mint Ahmed.
According to news reports, Diop was threatened with a dismissal right after presenting the news.
“The new Director (…)
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Newscaster dismissed for mispronouncing Mauritanian First Lady’s name
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The crack-down on journalists in the Ebola states
20 novembre 2014The ebola-stricken countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, have all declared states of emergency.
In Liberia, the hardest-hit country, police last month used batons and whips to disperse protesters as lawmakers debated a request to extend president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s powers beyond the already sweeping ones accorded by the state of emergency declared in August.
Legislators in Sierra Leone threatened to gag the media over their coverage of the controversial allocation in (…) -
Ethiopie : Zone 9 bloggers must be immediately and unconditionally released
20 mai 2014, par ARTICLE 19ARTICLE 19 condemns the arrest of 6 ’Zone 9’ bloggers and 3 freelance journalists in Ethiopia, all of whom have been charged with working with foreign organisations that claim to be human rights activists and receiving finance to incite public violence through social media. The journalists and activists should be immediately and unconditionally released. Furthermore, we urge United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who will be visiting Ethiopia on 29 April to prompt the Ethiopian (…)
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Erythrée : Freedom Day call for release of journalists
14 mai 2011, par International Federation of Journalists(IFJ/IFEX) - 3 May 2011 - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined its African group, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) to mark World Press Freedom Day by sending a letter to President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea, urging him to release all journalists detained by his government.
The IFJ and FAJ say the situation of human rights and freedom of expression has been steadily deteriorating in Eritrea where it is estimated that some 30 journalists have been (…) -
Les médias soudanais écrasés par la censure
24 avril 2016, par Reporters sans frontièresReporters sans frontières (RSF) s’inquiète de la multiplication des saisies de journaux par les services de renseignement soudanais (le NISS). L’organisation demande aux autorités de mettre immédiatement un terme à ce mode de censure inadmissible.
Le 17 avril 2016, les services de renseignement soudanais ont confisqué les numéros du quotidien Al-Saiha sans autre forme de procès, ni la moindre explication. Quelques jours auparavant, le NISS avait demandé à rencontrer le comité de rédaction (…) -
Guinée équatoriale : Authorities delete German TV crew’s footage
5 juillet 2011, par Committee to Protect JournalistsThe Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a German television crew and the destruction of their footage by authorities in Equatorial Guinea.
On Saturday, plainclothes state security agents led by Teobaldo Nchaso Matomba, the director of the state-controlled broadcaster TVGE, arrested reporter Jorg Brase, cameraman Michael Berger, camera assistant Stanley Oriaro, and their fixer (identified only as "Robert") while they were filming a concert at the French cultural (…) -
RDC : HRW exige la libération des prisonniers politiques
18 décembre 2015Dans une déclaration rendue public jeudi 10 décembre, Human Rights Watch demande au gouvernement congolais de libérer tous les prisonniers politiques. Cette ONG de défense des droits de l’homme exige aussi que les autorités congolaises mettent un terme aux atteintes à la liberté de réunion pacifique et d’expression.
L’ONG est revenue sur certains faits enregistrés récemment en RDC. Elle évoque notamment les incidents survenus le 28 novembre dernier à Goma où la police a lancé des gaz (…) -
Equatorial Guinea : Football and fun to forget media freedom violations ?
13 décembre 2014, par Reporters sans frontièresEquatorial Guinea has been chosen to host the next Africa Cup of Nations football tournament, to be held from 17 January to 8 February 2015, although its president figures prominently on the Reporters Without Borders list of Predators of Press Freedom.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Basogo continues to appear at international events without ever being challenged over the appalling way he has crushed freedom of information in his country.
During the tournament you will see the football (…) -
Sud Soudan : Independence has not brought freedom for press
13 mai 2012, par Index on CensorshipIn November last year, Ngor Garang was illegally detained and repeatedly tortured for 18 days in South Sudan’s national security headquarters, located in the country’s interim capital, Juba. His crime : he was the chief editor for a newspaper that published a column criticizing the marriage of President Salva Kiir’s daughter to an Ethiopian national.
In the wake of the incident, authorities shut the doors on Garang’s English-language daily Destiny. Six months on, Destiny remains out of (…) -
COMORES : Deux journalistes interpellés et placés sous contrôle judiciaire
2 février 2020, par Reporters sans frontièresReporters sans frontières (RSF) condamne l’arrestation arbitraire de deux journalistes comoriens et leur placement sous contrôle judiciaire depuis lundi pour “troubles à l’ordre public”. A quelques jours des élections législatives, RSF demande aux autorités de ne pas prendre les journalistes et les médias critiques pour cibles comme lors de l’élection présidentielle de 2019.
Alors qu’ils étaient en route pour couvrir un rassemblement de l’opposition, Ali Mbaé, journaliste au quotidien (…)