Monthly Archives: December 2018

The US State Department has barred former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and members of his immediate family from entering the United States.

As Kenyans prepare to vote in the March general elections and four senior figures go to trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague a month later, IWPR and the Wayamo Communication Foundation are providing training and support to reporters and editors at Kenya’s media houses. Participating media organisations include the Nation Media Group, the Standard, Star and People… Read more »

Through phone-ins to the Facing Justice programme, which IWPR produces in partnership with the Northern Uganda Media Club, they have been able to make their concerns known to government officials in the north. Last October, Uganda’s auditor general reported that money intended for development projects in the north had ended up in the private bank accounts of individuals in the… Read more »

IWPR’s monitoring of the media in Malawi reveals that most news coverage was “broadly neutral in tone”, although state broadcasters displayed a bias towards the People’s Party of President Joyce Banda. The news output of print, broadcast, electronic and social media from March 22 to April 2 was scrutinised for tone and balance ahead of elections for the presidency, parliament… Read more »

In the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, information of any kind is in short supply amid an ongoing insurgency, but listeners around the town of Gidel are now getting a weekly radio show focusing on women and with a lot of input from local reporters. Nadhrat al-Shafafa (or “Transparent View”) is a weekly 20-minute magazine-format programme that covers issues affecting women and… Read more »

A Chinese state-owned company is behind rubber plantations that Cameroon villagers say threaten their livelihoods

State department says Jammeh and members of his immediate family are ineligible to enter the United States.

Governor of Gadarif state and three security officials among the dead in the crash in an eastern Sudan region. At least seven local government officials have been killed in a helicopter crash in Sudan’s eastern Gadarif state. The state’s governor and three security officials were among the dead, the country’s official news agency, SUNA, reported on Sunday. Governor Mirghani Salih was travelling… Read more »

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday quashed a rumour stemming from his ill health that he had died and been replaced by a lookalike impostor from Sudan, his spokesman said.