News and Press Releases

Journalist and head of Dawan TV, Alinur Salaad, was detained by regional police in Mogadishu on 22 July on charges of false reporting and insulting…

L’ Union des Journalistes Tchadiens (UJT) in collaboration with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) held a two -day workshop from 19 –…

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) condemns in the strongest terms the recent violent attacks on journalists in Kenya, viewing them as severe…

Kenyan Journalist and reporter for the privately owned MediaMax Limited, Catherine Kariuki Wanjeri, was shot three times in the thigh while covering…

Journalists Adama Bayala, Serge Oulon and Kalifara Sere were abducted in separate incidents in the Burkinabe capital of Ouagadougou by suspected…

A number of journalists have been attacked and brutalised by the police while covering a nationwide protest in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, on 25…

Precious Eze Chukunonso, a journalist and the publisher of News Platform, an online newspaper, was arrested on 27 May in his home in Gbagada, Lagos,…

La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) acoge con satisfacción la liberación de Julian Assange el 24 de junio como una victoria significativa…

Mozambican journalists reporter Laves Macatane and cameraman Helder Matwassa, who work for Soico Television (STV), were harassed by the police and…

The Gambia Press Union (GPU) in collaboration with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) under the Information , Training and Migration…

Journalist Dakurugu Abubakar Ndeeya of media company Zaa Multimedia was physically assaulted and brutalised by supporters of the New Patriotic Party…

The police in Cameroon had rudely raided, interrupted and assaulted journalists in Douala as they gathered to celebrate World Press Freedom Day on 3…

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Pan-African regional organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), joins the…

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…