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Egypt
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Society
4/21/2022 9:23:53 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi held a meeting on Thursday with a group of journalists and media professionals as part of an open dialogue to discuss various issues of interest to the public opinion.
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World
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International
4/13/2022 5:35:51 PM
More than 110 MPs, journalists and campaigners frustrated by escalating government secrecy have signed an open letter warning that the UK’s freedom of information (FoI) laws are being undermined by a lack of resources and government departments obstructing lawful requests.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/4/2022 10:26:06 PM
The Ukrainian government says that 18 journalists have been killed in the country since Russia's invasion began on Feb. 24.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/21/2022 9:29:46 PM
The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in.
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World
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International
3/18/2022 2:10:58 PM
Taliban intelligence men came in the night to arrest three staff of TOLO TV, one of Afghanistan's largest television stations, a channel executive said Friday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/16/2022 9:29:23 AM
Several explosions rocked Kyiv early Wednesday, according to AFP journalists in the city, with emergency services saying two residential buildings were damaged and two people wounded.
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Egypt
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Society
3/7/2022 8:35:38 PM
Veteran Egyptian journalist and diplomatic reporter at Al-Ahram newspaper Hadayat Abdel-Nabi passed away on Monday at the age of 74.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
2/13/2022 6:23:07 PM
An array of journalists, media personalities and writers gathered Saturday to celebrate the 98th birthday of the so-called “godfather” of journalists and former chairman and editor-in-chief of the Middle East News Agency Mohamed Abdel-Gawad, at his residence in Mohandessin, in the midst of his family and friends.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/7/2022 8:18:07 PM
A Giza prosecutor’s office approved on Monday the burial of Nikolaos Katsikas, a Greek veteran correspondent and vice president of the Hellenic Cultural Centre who was found stabbed to death on Saturday in his apartment in Giza’s Sheikh Zayed neighbourhood.
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World
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International
2/3/2022 12:42:30 PM
The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents and human rights activists has long been established. It suggested its motivation was to "stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft.''
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World
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Region
2/1/2022 9:46:45 PM
The West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Tuesday attacked what it called an "attempted coup" in the state of Guinea-Bissau, where journalists earlier reported gunfire around the seat of government in the capital Bissau.
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World
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Region
2/1/2022 11:17:07 AM
The Taliban have arrested two Afghan journalists working for a local news channel, rights groups said Tuesday, weeks after two women activists went missing.
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World
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Region
1/30/2022 3:37:36 PM
Yemen's Houthi insurgents have shut down six radio stations in the capital Sanaa, the journalists' union said, with reporters saying the move came after broadcasters refused to air rebel propaganda.
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World
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International
1/23/2022 10:10:43 AM
For five years, Sajad Gul wrote about conflict wracking his homeland, a disputed Himalayan territory where a violent armed rebellion and India's brutal counterinsurgency have raged for over three decades.
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World
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International
1/8/2022 2:38:24 PM
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists asked Indian authorities to immediately release a journalist in disputed Kashmir, days after police arrested him for uploading a video clip of a protest against Indian rule.
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World
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International
12/31/2021 6:40:41 PM
A total of 45 journalists were killed worldwide in 2021, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Friday -- "one of the lowest death tolls" it has recorded for any year.
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Opinion
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12/27/2021 5:54:07 PM
Since the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan, I have received questions from a number of journalists, both American and Arab. They have asked what the US withdrawal means for the region, for American leadership in the world, and which countries will now fill the void left by the absence of the US from the scene.
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World
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International
12/16/2021 8:09:24 PM
There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced Thursday.
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World
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Africa
12/16/2021 2:52:39 PM
Ethiopian authorities must immediately free all detained journalists and stop using wartime emergency laws to lock up reporters for doing their jobs, a press freedom watchdog said Thursday.
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World
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Region
12/4/2021 9:35:08 AM
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged authorities in Sudan to respect freedom of expression and the press, calling the country hostile to journalists in a report submitted Friday to the Security Council.
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