by Brian Chen

A journalist captured in Afghanistan told the world he was still alive by tweeting with a prison guard’s cellphone.

by NYTimes

After reviewing the evidence gathered by state investigators, the National Prosecuting Authority said Tuesday that charges would be withdrawn against a journalist for the Sunday Times, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, who was arrested last month on fraud charges just days after he was a co-author of an article that laid out what it described as a questionable property deal between South Africa’s police chief and a politically connected businessman.