The head of Al Jazeera in Sudan has been released after 2 days in detention

Al-Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief, Sudanese Al-Moussalami al-Kabbachi, was released on Tuesday, the Qatari channel announced, while hundreds of arrests have taken place since the October 25 coup in this East African country. Arrested on Sunday at his home, Mr. Kabbachi Read more

Algerian Journalist Dies after Hunger Strike, Prompting Worldwide Indignation

Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt has died after staging a hunger strike in protest against a two-year jail term sentence he was handed for offending Algeria’s president in a poem posted online. The news of the death the Algerian journalist prompted Read more