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The “National GUARDIAN” newspaper has been launched in Ghana by the Media Guard publishing company. The general interest newspaper will cover politics, business, the economy and sports, and will also offer human interest stories. The newspaper will appear three times a week, and will be a minimum of 16-pages. According to the publishers, the “National […]

Difficult economic times have decreased the purchasing power of consumers in Cameroon, posing a direct challenge to newspapers that circulate throughout the country. Amidst these challenges, one entrepreneur has seen an opportunity: introducing a free newspaper into the market. RAP 21 spoke with Pierre Jules Njawe, the publisher of “Message d’Afrique”, the country’s first general interest […]

Health reporters from Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania, Oman, Sudan and Somalia are encouraged to apply for a Nieman Fellowship in Global Health Reporting, which will take place at Harvard University in Boston from August 2006 to May 2007. During their academic year, Nieman Global Health Fellows will pursue a concentrated course of study at Harvard’s School […]

World Press Photo has gained international fame not only for being the world’s largest annual press photo contest, but also for its exhibition that tours the world every year, showing the best of press photography to more than one million people in over 40 countries. Today, the contest is looking for greater participation from Africa. […]

Submissions are encouraged for The RFI Net Africa Prize, hosted by Radio France Internationale (RFI), which honours Africa’s most innovative website or multimedia creation. Organised in partnership with UNESCO and the l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, the RFI Net Africa Prize 2005 aims to discover, encourage and promote projects that contribute to development in one […]

On 7 September, Egypt will hold its first presidential elections allowing multiple candidates to compete for the presidency. The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is currently carrying out a monitoring project to record how the elections are being covered in Egyptian media. Initial findings show that the coverage so far has been biased […]

With both monthly and weekly series on topics ranging from economics and international affairs to science and philosophy, the international organisation Project Syndicate provides newspapers worldwide with commentaries current topics. The special “Into Africa” series brings the voices of leading African thinkers, politicians, economists and writers to the world at large. RAP 21 spoke to […]

In the past few months, the government in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania, has reportedly licensed nine private electronic and four print media outlets. With this move, a small window for independent media may be opening in a country that has for a number of years, shown a very poor press […]

In Chad, Ngaradoumbé Samory, a journalist with the privately-owned weekly “L’Observateur”, was arrested on 4 June and held for 48 hours, following the publication of an open letter to President Idriss Deby in the newspaper. Samory was arrested by the National Security Agency (Agence nationale de sécurité, ANS), Chads counter-espionage service. His arrest followed the 1 […]

Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Sudans oldest independent newspaper, Al Ayam, was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of Newspaper, for his great contribution to a free and independent press in his home country. For over half a century, Salih has confronted obstacles […]