Two Ethiopian journalists imprisoned under Ethiopia’s anti-terror laws have appealed to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights arguing that their conviction and imprisonment for alleged terrorist activity violates…

The Obama administration's aggressive war on leaks and other efforts to control information are without precedent, according to 30 experienced Washington journalists interviewed for a new report released by the…

By Uchenna Ekwo Thinking of the events, processes, and outcome of the shutdown of the United States government for 16 days, I cannot but view it from the prism of…

By Lawrence Freeman The UN Children's Fund, (UNICEF) reports that of the 6.9 million children under five years old who died in 2011, almost half were from Sub-Saharan countries and…