The Qatar-based Al Jazeera media outlet confirmed Tuesday that the Sudanese government had pulled the credentials of three of its journalists covering weeks of economic and political unrest. Correspondents Osama Ahmed and Ahmed Alrehaid, along with photojournalist Badawi Bashir, have been barred despite earlier approval from the Sudanese Press and…
Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, known as “Shawkan,” was sentenced to five years in prison on Saturday – five years that he has already spent behind bars after he was arrested while covering a demonstration at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in Cairo on August 14, 2013. Shawkan was convicted of murder…
Government officials in Qatar say they have reviewed a list of 13 demands presented by Saudi Arabia and aligned nations earlier this week, and find them neither “reasonable nor actionable,” according to the Al Jazeera network. Sheikh Saif bin Ahmed Al Thani, Qatar’s communications director, mirrored the precise language used…
Negeri Lencho of Ethiopia, the country’s information minister, has defended the extended state of emergency in the East African nation and its refusal to allow United Nations officials access to investigate allegations of human rights abuses. Lencho’s comments came during an interview with al Jazeera broadcast Tuesday. “It is the…
South Africa has the world’s largest rhino population and has seen an alarming trend in illegal trafficking, primarily to Asia, in recent years. This weekend, CITES Secretary General John Scanlon praised the destruction of two tons of African elephant ivory and rhino horn seized from illegal traders in Vietnam. “The destruction…
Somali security agents have released Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed, who was arrested Tuesday in Mogadishu. Radio Shabelle reports that Mohamed and cameraman Nur Mohamed were released from custody in the Somali capital. The Qatari news network had confirmed that Mohamed, a British national, was detained with the cameraman and two others while in Somalia…
Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed was arrested Tuesday by Somali security agents in Mogadishu. Radio Shabelle reports that Mohamed and cameraman Nur Mohamed remain in custody in the Somali capital. The Qatari news network confirmed that Mohamed, a British national, was detained with the cameraman and two others while in Somalia on a reporting…