Africa

Abuja, November 14, 2025—At least three journalists in Nigeria have been detained since August on allegations of violating the country’s Cybercrime Act, despite last year’s reform of the law, highlighting its ongoing use to harass the media. One journalist, known under the pen name Fejiro Oliver, has been behind bars since mid-September. “Nigerian authorities appear…

Abuja, November 12, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Benin to release Nigerian YouTube-based travel journalist Mathew Ojoduma, who has been detained on terrorism charges since January 29. Beninese police arrested Ojoduma, founder of the Africa Views channel, which covers African cities, when he was crossing Benin’s northern border into Burkina Faso…

Dakar, November 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerien authorities to free journalists Ibro Chaibou, Youssouf Sériba, and Oumarou Abou Kané who were remanded in southern Niger’s Kollo prison on November 3. The three were initially arrested on October 30 and are accused of sending an invitation to a government news conference to…

Lusaka, November 4, 2025—The Swazi Bridge news site in Eswatini is facing a record-breaking claim for 170 million emalangeni (US$9.8 million) in damages and the threat of terrorism investigations, as part of a growing global trend of using abusive lawsuits to suppress public interest reporting. The Farmers Bank and its director John Asfar alleged defamation…

Abuja, November 3, 2025—As the world marks yet another International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists without accountability for the killing of Ghanaian journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela, the Committee to Protect Journalists calls for global solidarity. Divela, a member of the investigative outlet Tiger Eye PI, was murdered near his family home in…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 37 other media and human rights groups have written to the Angolan Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies, and Media, urging amendments to the draft law on the Dissemination of False Information on the Internet, to ensure it aligns with Angola’s constitutional protections for freedom of expression and with the  international and regional…

Kinshasa, October 30, 2025—The M23 and Congo River Alliance (AFC) rebel groups must ensure the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Ricardo Olenga, detained for over a month in the eastern city of Goma, in North Kivu, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On September 19, intelligence agents with the M23 and AFC rebel…

Kampala, October 30, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to lift restrictions barring the privately owned Nation Media Group-Uganda (NMG-U) from covering parliament and presidential events, and to ensure that journalists can report freely and in the public interest ahead of the country’s January 2026 elections. “Blocking journalists from reporting on the legislature and…

Dakar, October 29, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Senegalese authorities to immediately release two journalists arrested in an October 28-29 crackdown on two outlets — 7TV and RFM — that had broadcast interviews with a politician wanted by authorities. Three other journalists were also detained during the raid on RFM, but released the same day. The journalists in custody as of October…

Nairobi, October 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Ethiopian Media Authority to immediately lift its license suspension of Deutsche Welle (DW) correspondents operating in the country, and to allow journalists to report freely and without intimidation. “This blatant suspension of Deutsche Welle’s journalists is an outrageous act of censorship and intimidation,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela…