A schoolgirl walks past campaign posters for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos. Journalists covering the election campaign say they are being attacked. (Reuters/ Akintunde Akinleye)
By Peter Nkanga/CPJ West Africa Representative
"Nobody is safe. Not the voter, not the journalist,...
NAIROBI, (Somalilandpress) -- Kenyan security forces have arrested three suspected terrorist in the capital Nairobi on Thursday.
Sources say that the suspects were planning to leave Nairobi for Somalia's war-torn capital, Mogadishu, where they were to meet Islamists groups fighting...
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reveals a $1.5 billion money laundering plot, bribery, theft and fraud in paradise: “It’s like something from a James Bond film.”
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has exposed massive corruption at the top of the Maldives government,...
Hargeisa, 27 June 2009 (Somalilandcurrent) - As Somalia's transitional government fights for its existence and the region's governments debate how to respond, guest columnist Daniela Kroslak argues strongly against another foreign military incursion. Instead what is needed, she writes,...
The presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, Paul Kagame (L) and Yoweri Museveni / Village Urugwiro
Once great allies, presidents Kagame and Museveni are becoming more and more critical of each other, risking conflict in East and Central Africa. At stake...
NAIROBI — Two journalists were arrested and a television station shut down in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland while several others were beaten in the self-declared state of Puntland, a media watchdog said Friday.
The two Somaliland journalists Ahmed Saleban...
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Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt are a step closer to resolving their disputes over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The dam – a huge project on one of the River Nile’s main tributaries, the Blue Nile in...
HARGEISA, (IRIN) -- Around 1,000 families have been displaced by flooding after heavy rains in an area straddling the border between Ethiopia and the self-declared independent republic of Somaliland, according to officials.
“The floods occurred in the last 24...