Those exposed of wrongdoing by vigilant reporters are exploiting the distrust and doubt that misinformation engenders.

Not since the xenophobic attacks of 2008 have South Africa’s underlying and unresolved patterns of violence burst as clearly into the open.

China has criticised human rights demonstrators who disrupted the Greek torch-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics as being ”disgraceful”. Just before the torch was lit on…

France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned as illegal a bid by a French group to spirit more than 100 children out of Chad on the grounds that they were Darfur orphans in…

Eritrea has taken over from North Korea as the country in the world where press rights are least respected, the Paris-based campaigning group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said…

A journalist and two actors were arrested in Zimbabwe during a satirical play making fun of the country’s political situation, press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières said…