By Peter Fedynsky Tbilisi 11 November 2007 Independent media were taken off the air in Georgia when President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency in response to mass anti-government demonstrations in Tbilisi. VOA Correspondent Peter Fed...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 November 2007 Australian cricket authorities are locked in a dispute with major news organizations over coverage of test matches. Cricket Australia, the game's governing body, has demanded that news groups hand over rights to...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 October 2007 Uganda has sent diplomats to Somalia to help mediate a peace deal between the country's embattled transitional government and its opponents. As VOA correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 15 September 2007 A journalist and a government press officer are being detained in the tiny West African country Gambia, despite a court order releasing them on bail. The media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has called...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 13 September 2007 Suharto (file photo) Former Indonesian President Suharto's victory in his lawsuit against TIME magazine is raising questions about Indonesia's Supreme Court. Its decision to order TIME to pay a huge d...
By Malcolm Webb Nairobi 21 August 2007 International media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has criticized the Ethiopian government for its inconsistent approach to press freedom. On Saturday, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi conditionally pardoned fo...
By Jim Fry Washington, D.C. 20 July 2007 A non-profit organization in Washington, DC is exposing more than 100 websites run by jihadist organizations but hosted by Internet service providers in the U.S. The Middle East Media Research Institute is pub...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 05 June 2007 Pakistani journalists hold oil torches as they march towards presidency during rally to condemn crackdown against media, in Islamabad, 04 June 2007 Pakistani journalists and media rights activists are lashing o...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 11 April 2007 An international media watchdog has condemned the recent arrests of three television journalists following a press conference in Somalia. The group also expressed concerns about government-imposed restrictions...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 March 2007 Press-freedom watchdogs are alarmed over the recent prison sentences of four journalists in the self-declared Somaliland republic. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Publisher Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, of So...