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Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of Moussa Aksar, the editor of the privately-owned weekly L'Evénement, and one of his journalists, Sani Aboubacar, on 12 November on a charge of libelling the head of the state power company. Their arrests came a day after another newspaper editor got a three-month suspended sentence after 12 days in pre-trial custody.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of Moussa Aksar, the editor-in-chief of the privately-owned weekly "L'Evénement", and one of his journalists, Sani Aboubacar, on 12 November 2008 on a charge of libelling the head of the state power company. Their arrests came a day after another newspaper editor got a three-month suspended sentence after 12 days in pre-trial custody.
Nigeria and Niger Republic yesterday, agreed to, as a matter of urgent importance, source for funds and technical support for the accelerated implementation of an integrated ecosystem management (IEM) to sustain trans-boundary environmental projects in boundary communities.
Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Zakari Alzouma, the editor the independent weekly Opinions, who has been detained since 30 October in Niamey as a result of a libel complaint by the interior minister and whose case will not be heard for another week.
