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NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopian authorities on Thursday withdrew Addis Ababa Standard's license, a move widely condemned as a strategy to gag independent media in the conflict-ridden Horn of Africa country. Ethiopia has been embroiled in a deadly internal war for eight months between the Ethiopian National Defense Forces and its partners against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray otherwise known as the Tigray Defense Forces . Earlier this week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed indicated the possibility of suspending…

In Ethiopia, the media regulator on Thursday canceled the license for Addis Standard, one of the country's last independent publications, in the midst of an increasingly oppressive context in the capital, for journalists covering the war as well as for civilians of Tigraian origin. The media supervisor accuses Addis Standard of…

It has been more than 100 days since the French journalist Olivier Dubois was kidnapped in Mali. A support meeting was held in Paris in the middle of the day. A banner was displayed in front of the town hall in the 10th arrondissement. The message was clear, open in all speeches: we must talk about Olivier Dubois, we must get…

I think he was the last critical journalist through his leaders where he criticized power, corruption, the management of the health crisis ... Samir Bouaziz, RSF Advocacy Officer for North Africa .

A "sex tape" scandal has shaken public space for almost a week in Cameroon. It involves three main characters: a young girl and two men, one of whom is a famous sports journalist, promoter of a radio station in Douala, which is particularly under criticism. The case is such that it triggered a flood of outraged reactions while giving rise to a heated debate about sexism and deviant behavior in the…

Algeria is waiting, on Sunday 13 June, for the results of the legislative elections on Saturday. We work towards the participation of about 30% of about 24 million voters, the lowest number of legislative elections in at least twenty years, in Algeria. With our special correspondent in Algiers, Magali LagrangeThe early…

In Burkina Faso, the radio and television antenna Radio Oméga was interrupted for five days by the Superior Council of Communication. According to CSC's press release, this decision is motivated by a serious failure in the processing of information about the attack by Solhan and by the psychosis that this created in the population.…

In Nigeria, while authorities suspended access to Twitter on Friday, June 4, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is asking the media to shut down their social networking accounts. They reacted. "All audiovisual media will be considered antipatriotic if it continues to use Twitter, which is shut down," the NBC statement…

Turnaround in Ethiopia two weeks before the June 21 election. Eskinder Nega, one of the most important political opponents currently in prison, will be able to run. The former journalist became an opposition figure has been behind bars since July last year and his trial has still not started. Relief for the party Balderas, which presents itself for legislative choice of 21 June only in the capital Addis Ababa. It's not just its leader Eskinder Nega, but three other prisoners who may emerge. Geletaw Zeleke is responsible…

In this century of radio history, Africa has its part, sometimes beautiful, sometimes painful. Some memories ... To peel with delicacy. A century of radio existence. Can we say here that in the history of mankind, the invention of radio is undoubtedly one of those that had and continues to have a decisive impact on human life?…