News and Press Releases

The Eswatini Communications Commission has been accused of continously rejecting community radio stations' applications for temporary broadcasting...

The Sudanese authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Al Sadig Al Rezegy President of Sudanese Journalists Union following their decision to...

More than 100 workers employed by the Tayba media group are to lose their jobs by the end of August following a decision of the government-appointed...

Unidentified men dressed in military uniform and armed with automatic weapons invaded the studios of Capital FM, 107 .7 in the Bilitar District of...

The office of Les Echos newspaper in Dakar was attacked and vandalized by elements of the Moustarchidine Wal Moustarchidati movement on Monday, August...

The Kenya Union of Journalists has started legal action against Mediamax for the unfair dismissal of its journalists via a midnight text message and...

Journalists in Namibia have hit out at employers and politicians for muzzling the media and in defence of “the right to ask difficult questions”.

The Sierra Leone Parliament has unanimously repealed on 23 July its criminal libel law. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its...

More than half of women journalists have experienced increased gender inequalities due to COVID-19, according to a new survey conducted by...

In a bid to eradicate sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) organised in Mogadishu a three-day...

After years of resisting demands to pay for news, Google said in a surprise announcement on 25 June it had reached  deals with a number of news...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and dozens of press freedom, human rights, and privacy rights organizations across five continents...

Two TV stations were shut down by police as part of a growing media clampdown in Somaliland.The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins...

IFJ affiliates around the world have taken key actions in support of media workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), representing over 600,000 journalists around the world, today joined calls by workers'...

"The impact of the health and economic crisis brought about by Covid-19 will without doubt have terrible consequences on both men and women...