New York, March 5, 2020 — Authorities in Cameroon should not contest journalist Adalbert Hiol’s appeal of a false news and defamation conviction and should let his newspaper publish freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On November 7, 2019, authorities in Douala, a coastal city in southwest Cameroon, ordered Hiol, publisher of the privately owned Ades-Infos Jeunesse en…
Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) urges Ugandan government to release Moses Bwayo, an independent journalist Moses Bwayo, contracted by a U.K.-based company, Southern Films, for a documentary film on pop-star musician turned politician, Robert Kyagulanyi, (aka) Bobi Wine. Bobi Wine, currently a legislator, is seen as a strong challenger seeking to unseat long-serving President Yoweri Museveni in presidential election…
Early to midcareer journalists can apply for a nine-month reporting grant. Coda Story is accepting candidates for the inaugural Bruno Fellowship, sponsored by Martin Walker’s Bruno Foundation. The fellowship will provide US$16,000 for an investigative project shedding light to one or more of these topics: disinformation, authoritarian tech and the war on science. Applicants can be from any country…
Personnel of the Department of State Services are currently laying siege to the office of Premium Times, an online newspaper, in Abuja. Officials of the agency also took strategic positions around the home of the newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief, Mr Muskilu Mojeed, on Sunday morning in an attempt to arrest him. Two men wearing mufti in fact went to Mojeed’s house…
