Today we will report another murder of a journalist. This one was in Argentina. The last one we documented was a couple days ago--Alberto Graves Chakussanga was shot in the back in Angola. These tragedies are part of our daily work at CPJ, but this week was different. There have been eight killings of journalists around the globe since September 3, an unusually high number during my three years as an editor here.
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Angola
On January 8, while
Angola was hosting the African Cup of
Nations, the country made worldwide headlines after a deadly attack on the Togolese
national soccer team, which left a coach and a journalist dead. With
international attention turning to the story, a shroud of state censorship and
self-censorship by the Angolan media obscured the factual circumstances of the
attack and its aftermath.
In Uganda, a ruling this week in a landmark case of two journalists seeking to compel their government’s disclosure of multinationals oil deals highlighted the challenges to public transparency just before media leaders, press freedom advocates, officials, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gather in Ghana next week at the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information.
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