Human Rights
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 10:08
Police in Somalia have stormed the Mogadishu headquarters of the independent radio station, Shabelle, forcing it off the air.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 09:11
The Ministry of Martyrs and Missing People has called upon Libyan journalists to verify stories before publishing them, after a national TV station reported that a minister had escaped an assassination attempt.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 09:00
Egypt's 50-member committee unanimously approved three articles in the Rights and Freedom Chapter of the constitution, said the committee's official Twitter account on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:59
Somali security forces have raided and closed Radio Shabelle, a popular independent broadcasting station located in Mogadishu.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:43
Only a day after the appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) reversed a conditional leave it had granted Kenyan vice-president William Ruto, the prosecutor is now seeking to have a similar leave granted to president Uhuru Kenyatta reversed.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:41
The European Parliament has conducted an amendment to Mr. Tannock’s report on the human rights situation in Western Sahara and the Sahel, calling to send an international mission to study and discover the mass grave that has been found recently in Western Sahara by a group of medical and forensic experts.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:08
A Somali journalist says a colleague attacked by gunmen on Tuesday has died of his wounds.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:06
Somali government forces, who stormed Shabelle headquarters on Saturday, still hold the building and began dismantling and ransacking the equipment of the two radio stations Shabelle and Sky-FM and also Shabelle TV.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:05
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemns the crackdown and ransacking of Shabelle Media Network, the leading independent media network in Somalia, by the security forces of the Federal Government of Somalia as a serious threat to media freedom and freedom of expression in Somalia.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:03
Envoy to Eritrea says country's citizens run risk of being shot by their own troops if they try to flee their homeland.