The Daily IIJ

There are conflicting accounts emanating from the Liberian Government regarding President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s position on the recently released findings of the General Auditing Commission (GC) Audit Reports involving several government functionaries.
The conflicting accounts emerged last Friday when Acting Information Minister Cletus Sieh during a news conference disclosed that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has [...]

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This year’s Presidential and Parliamentary election is tagged to go down in history as the most competitive, fierce and expensive elections ever held in Ghana. Many has touted it as the mother of all elections whiles others called it the finals in reference to the two terms of office of both the ruling government, the [...]

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Five days training on the topic “FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE MEDIA” has ended in Accra, Ghana.  The workshop attracted 15 participants from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Benin, Togo, The Gambia and Sierra Leone.  Participants were taken through topics such as:  The Code of Ethics (Codes, Norms and standards in journalism), Conflict reporting, Election reporting, accidents [...]

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On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reportswas arrested by the Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) upon his arrival at Abuja airport. It was some days before the SSS announced that Elendu had been charged, first with money laundering and then sedition.
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La presse africaine souffre de divers maux. Une situation qui devient plus difficile du jour au lendemain. On assiste de plus en plus à la violation de la liberté d’expression dans la plupart des pays africains. Pour venir à bout de ses maux, Inwent, qui est un organisme allemand pour le développement des ressources humaines, [...]

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A one week workshop on the topic Freedom and Responsibility in the Media, organized by the International Institute for Journalism of InWent for journalists in West African countries, ended last Thursday in Accra. The workshop attracted 15 participants from Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Togo, Benin and Liberia.  

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Just a couple of weeks back I wrote an article that afterwards made me feel sick to the stomach. It was a round up of a grisly attack on the procession of the slain Pakistani politician, Benazir Bhutto, who was targeted in a bomb blast upon arrival in Karachi a year ago.
More than 150 innocent people [...]

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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and a group of human rights and public interest organizations plan to introduce Wednesday a global code of conduct that they say will better protect online free speech and privacy against government intrusion, the New York Times reports.
A wide range of organizations have participated in the effort but it is doubtful [...]

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Press freedom in Zimbabwe is a very serious situation, Reporters Without Borders concluded in their 2007 country report. The government of Robert Mugabe has shut down independent newspapers. Radio signals from outside the country have been jammed. Internet is slow and not reliable. Inflation is skyrocketing.
Conrad Dube, a Zimbabwean journalist, a participant at the just [...]

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I assume you have heard about the court case in VN against two reporters. If not, please read the articles published by the news agency AFP or the International Herald Tribune.
Relating to this, I am writing to ask for your opinion: You quote the authorized sources in your writing, but later it turns out that [...]

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