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By Alltimepost.com Nairobi – Authorities in Somaliland should immediately release TV journalist Omar Ali Hassan Serbiya, the Committee to Protect Journalists said yesterday. Security officers arrested Omar when he arrived at Hargeisa on July 8, the administrative capital of the semi-autonomous republic, his employer told CPJ. The journalist was on his way to visit his family in Somaliland on holiday …

By Alltimepost.com A Johannesburg High Court order forbidding a political organization from gathering outside the home of journalists who have reported on corruption, threatening them, or inciting others to harm them is a welcome victory for press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. The July 7, 2017 court order came in response to a petition from the South …

By Alltimepost.com Nairobi – Authorities in Puntland should immediately release journalist Ahmed Ali Kilwe, the Committee to Protect Journalists has demanded. Security forces in Garowe, the administrative capital of the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, have detained Ahmed, the founder of the news website Puntlandone.com, since July 2, according to media reports. Media reports and three journalists covering Puntland who spoke …

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2016 governorship election in Edo, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has congratulated the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, on his victory at the Supreme Court on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr. Ize-Iyamu congratulated Mr. Obaseki in a statement personally signed by him. He said, “Today, the Supreme Court has by …

The Supreme Court, on Monday, upheld the election victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. In an unanimous judgment, a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, dismissed appeal that was lodged by gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the September 28, 2016 governorship …

Despite assertions of seeming belligerence, Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was, yesterday, reaching out to the leadership of the National Assembly towards averting imminent paralysis of the machinery of government. As part of the moves, the acting president was last night scheduled to meet with the president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, …

A major crisis is looming between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the All Progressives Congress, APC, lawmakers in the state House of Assembly as the lawmakers are threatening to dump the party over the governor’s alleged attempt to starve the House of funds. The lawmakers claimed that to worsen the situation, the governor, last week, allegedly slashed N25 …

Donald Trump said on Sunday that it was “time to move forward in working constructively with Russia” after his meeting at the G20 with Vladimir Putin. After returning from the summit of the world’s leading economies in Germany on Saturday night, Trump began Sunday with a series of tweets defending himself against criticism that he had been too soft on …

Republican senators left Washington more than a week ago without voting on a long-promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act or their unpopular plan to replace it. The GOP lawmakers return on Monday with the daunting task of crafting a bill still very much in front of them, amid swirling doubts about the prospect of finding a solution any time …

Donald Trump appears to have backed away from working with Russia to create a cybersecurity unit to guard against election hacking following widespread criticism of the idea. The US president had said in a Sunday morning tweet that he and Vladimir Putin had discussed “forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will …