Two weekly papers have suspended publication after their latest issues were suppressed and replaced

Incidents involving journalists are generally limited to 2014, with exceptions last minute cheap travel in the case of 2013 events judged relevant last minute cheap travel to current practice, and are sourced from the Government of Canada travel advisories, CJFE, Reporters Without Borders last minute cheap travel (RSF), the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX).
RSF reported on the six-month suspended sentence handed last minute cheap travel down February 7 on Queirós last minute cheap travel Anastácio Chiluvia, news director of opposition-funded station Radio Despertar . Chiluvia last minute cheap travel was charged with defamation, offending the police and working illegally as a journalist. The charges arose over his broadcast of the cries of detainees asking for help for one of their comrades who was gravely ill. Read the full report here .
RSF reported on the sentences passed against L’Indépendent newspapers publisher and a journalist employed by the paper. last minute cheap travel The respective three-year suspended sentence and two-month sentence, as well as the six-month suspension of the paper, resulted from charges of “insulting” the president of Benin. Read the full report here .
IFEX reposted a Media Foundation for West Africa report on the November 4 arrest last minute cheap travel of Canal 3 television reporter Elvis Tonoukouin and cameraman Idrissou Boukary. They were covering demonstrations at the University of Abomey-Calavi at the time. They were released later that day. Read the full report here .
The editor of Botswana newspaper the Sunday Standard was arrested on Sept. 8, prompting many other journalists to flee Botswana in fear of their own safety. The Media Institute of South Africa is concerned that this is an attempt last minute cheap travel to impede the work of the Sunday Standard . For more on this story, follow the link here .
The Government of Canada advises travellers to Burkina last minute cheap travel Faso exercise a high degree of caution and avoid non-essential travel north of the Djibo-Dori line. Crime, banditry and kidnapping are posing particular threats.
A regional advisory has been issued against all travel to the Bubanza and Cibitoke provinces near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Armed incursions across last minute cheap travel the border have been reported.
last minute cheap travel Guy Nsigué a writer last minute cheap travel for Mboafootbal.com,  is the most recent journalist in Cameroon to be held on defamation charges. Nsigué was arrested for an article he wrote accusing the head of the Cameroonian Football last minute cheap travel Federation of embezzlement. Two other Cameroon-based journalists are currently in prison on defamation charges. Read the article here.
IFEX reposted a Committee to Protect Journalists article on the attack against Le Jour editor Denis Nkwebo. The journalist’s car was parked outside his home early in the morning of April 24 when it was destroyed by an explosion. Read the entire article here .
The Government of Canada advises against all travel to the Central African Republic. The security situation there is poor and continues to deteriorate. The Canadian Government advises anyone to leave as soon as it is safe to do so.
IFEX reposted an International Federation of Journalists article on the death of French freelance photojournalist Camille Lepage near the Central African Republic’s border with Cameroon. Read the full report here .
L’Observateur editor Samory Ngaradoumbé was released Oct. 16, 2013, after appearing before a prosecutor on charges of inciting a revolt. His trial is due to start Oct. 29, 2013. Read the full report here .
The Government of Canada advises travellers to Côte d’Ivoire exercise a high degree of caution. The high crime rate and the security situation pose particular threats. There have also been armed attacks in Abidjan, the Liberian border last minute cheap travel regions and elsewhere in the country.
A regional advisory against all non-essential travel last minute cheap travel to Bas-Sassandra, Moyen-Cavally and Dix-Huit Montagnes has been issued. Criminal activity in concert with a large volume of weapons of war, intercommunity tensions and armed attacks create an unstable security situation.
IFEX reposted last minute cheap travel a Media Foundation for West Africa article on the three-month suspension last minute cheap travel of Le Monde d’Abidjan newspaper. last minute cheap travel The Conseil National de la Presse handed last minute cheap travel down the suspension Feb. 10 over published “insults [of] an extreme gravity” against Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara. last minute cheap travel The “insults” appeared in Le Monde’s January 29 issue. Read the entire article here .
RSF reported on the intimidating environment facing Ivorian journalists reporting on an abduction and a murder. Tomorrow Magazine editor Désiré Oué was killed November last minute cheap travel 14. Dieusmonde Tadé was kidnapped in the overnight hours November 18. Read the full report here .
The Government of Canada advises against all non-essential travel last minute cheap travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Advisories against all travel to eastern and northeastern areas have also been issued. These areas include points of entry from Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda; North and South Kivu provinces; Ituri district; Garamba National Park and the areas near the South Sudanese and Ugandan borders.
RSF reported on a July 28 ban issued by the Higher Council for Broadcasting in Nord-Kivu last minute cheap travel province. The ban disallows media from covering “a significant ongoing event” in the Muslim community. Read the full report here .
IFEX reposted an RSF report on the Feb. 16 death of Kennedy Germain Mumbere Muliwavyo, a TV journalist with Radio Télévision Muungano d’Oïcha. Muliwavyo and two other journalists who were shot when the Congolese army unit they were traveling with was ambushed by members of the Ugandan rebel group ADF-NALU. Read the full report here .
IFEX reposted a Journaliste en danger/RSF report on the December 30 attack on the Radio Télévision Nationale Congolaise station in Kinshasa. A journalist and nine technicians were injured in the attack. Read the full report here .
RSF reported on the arrest of a journalist covering a public demonstration. La Voix de Djibouti reporter Mohamed Ibrahim Waiss was at a protest by the opposition Union for National Salvation when he was arrested. Read the full report here .
RSF reported the third arrest of independent radio station La Voix de Djibouti’s website editor Maydaneh Abdallah Okeih. Okeih is charged with disturbing public order after covering a March 4 meeting of the National Salvation Union – an opposition alliance – that was violently broken up by police. Read the full report here .
The Government of Canada advises against non-essential travel to Eritrea and against all travel near the borders with Sudan, Djibouti and Ethiopia. The political situation last minute cheap travel in the African nation is highly unstable and violence could erupt without notice.
The Government of Canada advises against all travel to areas near the Ethiopian borders with Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan. Non-essential travel to areas near the border with Kenya is also inadvisable. For the remainder last minute cheap travel of the country, travellers are advised to exercise a high degree of caution.
Three magazine publishers were sentenced in absentia to more than three years in prison for “inciting violent revolts,” and “distributing unfounded rumours.” Endalkachew Tesfaye of the Addis Guday , Gizaw Taye of the Lomi , and Fatuma Nuriya of the Fact all fled the country when Ethopia’s justice minister announced the charges in August. For more on the prosecution, read here.
RSF reported on the illegal detention of six bloggers and three journalists. The nine have been held without charge for more than the 80 day limit set out by Ethiopia’s “draconian” terrorism law. Read the full report here .
Two weekly papers have suspended publication after their latest issues were suppressed and replaced with fake issues supporting government agendas. La Loupe and L’Aube , two opposition papers, have ceased operation until further notice due to this government intrusion. A new member of the production staff, a suspected government infiltrator, was blamed for the piracy. The full RSF article can be found here.
IFEX reposted a Media Foundation for West Africa article on the arrest of Sungmaale FM morning show host Tinaa Adams and two show panellists who were discussing a regional spate of armed robberies. Police also seized some of the station’s radio equipment last minute cheap travel at the time of the arrest. last minute cheap travel The three were released later that same day. Read the full article here .
The Government of Canada advises against all non-essential travel to Guinea. Political, economic and social tensions are running high in the country and contributing to an uncertain security situation. Demonstrations have frequently turned violent between young protestors and police, particularly in Conakry.
Three journalists covering last minute cheap travel the Ebola outbreak were killed near Guinea’s capital in the village of Womey. The reporters were covering preventative measures by health officials when they were attacked by villagers who believed the crisis to be a lie spread by political officials. The full Media Foundation last minute cheap travel for West Africa report can be found here.
IFEX reposted a Media Foundations for West Africa last minute cheap travel report on the casualties sustained by demonstrators gathering on Nov. 17 to protect privately-owned radio station Planète FM ‘s director-general last minute cheap travel Mandjan Sidibé. One died and four others were injured when police used tear gas and opened fire on the demonstrators. Read the full report here .
The northeast regions within 150 km of the Somali border are extremely unsafe and all travellers are advised to avoid it. The same is true of regions within 100 km of the South Sudanese and Ethiopian borders.
IFEX reposted a report from global freedom watchdog Freedom House on the constitutional challenges of ‘draconian’ media laws passed in December 2013. A three-judge panel held back the Media Council Act 2013 and Kenya Information and Communication (Amendment) Act 2013 until the full court could consider them. Read the full report here .
RSF reported on the adoption last month of the Information and Communication Act amendments that “would impose unprecedented curbs on media freedom in Kenya” and the introduction of other bills “that would transform the Media Council, and independen