the Alternative Media community of West Africa

CPJ urges Nigeria to probe police harassment, assault

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:35:00 +0200

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on national police Inspector General Mike Okiro to investigate reports that Delta state police harassed six journalists and attacked at least three of them last week.
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Telkom to improve business in Nigeria

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:40:00 +0200

JOHANNESBURG: The number one priority of Telkom is to improve business in Nigeria, the telecommunications giant said on Tuesday, 23 June 2009.
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Gambian journalists charged with sedition

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:42:00 +0200

NEW YORK: A magistrate in the Gambian capital, Banjul, on Thursday, 18 June 2009 charged seven journalists with sedition for criticising President Yahya Jammeh's televised comments about the unsolved 2004 murder of editor Deyda Hydara, their defense lawyer said.
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Seven Gambian press leaders arrested over Hydara reaction

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:46:00 +0200

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Tuesday, 16 June 2009, for Gambia's national security agency to release seven journalists it arrested on Monday, 15 June. The detainees include leaders of the country's press union and editors of newspapers that published a union press release criticising President Yahya Jammeh's recent comments about the unsolved 2004 murder of editor Deyda Hydara.
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From Women's Desk to energy issues, a Nigerian journalist's story

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:05:00 +0200

Many African women journalists are constrained to working at the Women's Desk, where they cover light issues such as entertainment or home affairs. A rare exception is Nigerian journalist Clara Nwachukwu, who worked her way from the Women's Desk to becoming one of the few women who report on business and energy issues for national daily newspapers.
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2010 media training programme underway in Senegal

Fri, 15 May 2009 12:20:00 +0200

On Monday, 12 May 2009 sports journalists began a programme sponsored by FIFA to provide mid-career training to more than 300 reporters and photographers across Africa. The programme is part of FIFA's "Win in Africa with Africa" development programme.
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Senegal abandons telecom sale to France

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:40:00 +0200

DAKAR: Shares in Sonatel, Senegal's biggest telecom operator, will no longer be sold to France Telecom, which was due to take a 52.2% controlling stake in the company, according to a labour union official.
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IFJ urges end to suspension of interactive broadcasts in Togo

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:26:00 +0200

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 called on the High Authority of Audio-visual and Communication (HAAC), the official regulatory body of the media in Togo, to lift the suspension of interactive emissions on radio and television stations in Togo.
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Liberia's blackboard blogger

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:10:00 +0200

Alfred Sirleaf is an analog blogger. He runs the “Daily News”, a news hut by the side of a major road in the middle of Monrovia. He started it a number of years ago, stating that he wanted to get news into the hands of those who couldn't afford newspapers, in the language that they could understand.
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Allegations against NCC baseless, says Ndukwe

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:17:00 +0200

The executive vice chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Ernest Ndukwe at the weekend refuted allegations leveled against him and the Commission by a member of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, describing them as baseless.
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