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The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African Regional Organization of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), has urged the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) to press its member States to urgently free all imprisoned journalists and end the use of anti-terror laws against journalists. “We urge the Commission to demand that its member States end violent repression against journalists and urgently address the deteriorating safety and security situation of journalists in the continent”, said Omar Faruk Osman, President of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) in his address to the African Commission in Banjul, The Gambia Delegates from the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), West African Journalists Association (WAJA), Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) and USYPAC (Central Africa’s Professional Media Workers Unions) attended the 51st Ordinary Session of the African Com...

KCA JOINS THE MEDIA FRATERNITY IN MARKING WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA) today joins the Kenyan media fraternity and journalists world wide in marking this year's World Press Freedom Day with a call for greater respect for journalists rights and press freedom, including guarantees on safety and security of journalists. In Kenya, the World Press Freedom Day is being marked in Nairobi at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi and which is part of a three day East Africa Journalists Convention organized by the Media Council of Kenya(MCK). KCA notes with concern that as the country moves towards the next General Elections, journalists are increasingly under threat from politicians, the business class, organized criminal gangs and militias and also the police. "We need to remember on this important day, the unresolved murder of Journalist Francis Kahinda Nyaruri about three years ago in Kisii in Western Kenya and the increasin...