News and Press Releases

Alors qu’il couvrait l’actualité politique et sociale togolaise, le journaliste français Thomas Dietrich a été brutalement arrêté, humilié et…

The South African online news website, The Daily Maverick, which also runs a weekly newspaper, closed down its operations on 15 April for 24 hours to…

The editor of FirstNews, an independent digital news network, Segun Olatunji, was abducted by at least ten armed men ‘two of them in military…

On 14 March, the Council of Ministers appointed members of the new Somali Media Council, without involving consultation with media organisations and…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) had learned with great sadness of the unexpected death of the Secretary General of the Journalists…

Journalist Abdikarin Ahmed Bulhan, a reporter for the Somali National Television (SNTV) was killed on 13 March in the Abudwak district of the…

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African Regional Organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), successfully held…

The broadcast licence of the privately owned television station, Walfadjri had been revoked by the Senegalese authorities through an order issued on 5…

Eleven journalists and future trainers from Senegal completed the first ‘train the trainers’ session organised by the International Federation of…

At least nine journalists were arrested, after raids on their offices by the security forces in the capital, Conakry on 18 January. The raids, at the…

L’Union des journalistes tchadiens (UJT) en collaboration avec la Fédération internationale des journalistes (FIJ), organise du 27 au 28 décembre 2023…

Somaliland security forces forcefully entered the headquarters of MM Somali TV, assaulting journalists and abruptly ending a televised debate on X…

L’Union des syndicats de professionnels d’Afrique Centrale (USYPAC), le Syndicat national des journalistes du Cameroun (SNJC) en partenariat avec la…

Le Syndicat National des Professionnels de la Presse (SNPP) in collaboration with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) under the Union to…

The Publication Director of Le Flambeau des Democrates newspaper, Loic Lawson and freelance journalist, Anani Innocent Assous were taken into police…

Aminou Alioum, correspondent of Canal 2 International in Cameroon was ambushed and arrested by plain-clothes police officials in his hometown, Maroua,…