Peter Greste, one of the three Al Jazeera journalists jailed last year in Egypt for alleged terrorism-related charges, has been freed and deported. But that still leaves Canadian citizen Mohamed Fahmy and their Egyptian Al Jazeera colleague Baher Mohamed. Now efforts are concentrating on freeing Jailed journos: Fahmy and Mohamed.
Into Africa... Leigh Andrews also looks at how BBC.com's doing African digital news justice.
And for those of you in the PR industry, there are two new African categories at the PRISM awards: 'Best African Network' and the 'Pan African Campaign of the Year'. The deadline for submission of entries is 6 February 2015.
