Tag: newspaper

Tanzania suspended on Sunday another newspaper accused of false stories even though President Samia Suluhu Hassan had pledged to uphold media freedoms quashed by...

Nigerian soldiers raided the offices of the Daily Trust newspaper and arrested two journalists following an article about the military's fight against Islamist militants...

Ugandan police raided the office of a local newspaper, detaining staff and confiscating equipment on allegations it had published an inaccurate story,...

Tanzania's government closed a critical newspaper for the second time in three months, banning the weekly MwanaHalisi for two years after accusing...

Egypt blocked the website of one of its most prominent financial newspapers, the paper's owner said, expanding a media blackout initiated last...

Sudanese authorities seized the print-runs of four daily newspapers on Tuesday, staff said, a move one editor called a crackdown on coverage...

Somali security forces shut down a newspaper and arrested an editor, the Somali journalists' union said on Sunday, the latest crackdown in...

South Sudan's authorities have shut down a prominent newspaper, the Nation Mirror, the editor said on Wednesday, after it published details of...

The managing editor of one of Ethiopia's few remaining independent Amharic-language newspapers publishing critical analysis of local politics said he left the...

Iranian authorities shut down a reformist newspaper after it published a scathing attack by an aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the president's...

A Moroccan appeal courtupheld a newspaper editor's one-year jail sentence for criticising the security service's counter-terrorism campaign and what he said were...

Sudanese security forces have confiscated the entire edition of an independent newspaper in the capital Khartoum, its editor said the latest sign...