Africa
2019
Africa documents by Year:
US-Nigerian Sahara Reporters website reports assets frozen amid surveillance, censorship
December 10, 2019 6:00 PM ET
New York, December 10, 2019—Nigerian authorities should halt all efforts to intimidate journalists working with the U.S.-headquartered, Nigeria-focused Sahara Reporters news website and ensure they are permitted to continue working to report the news, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Nigerian journalists attacked and threatened while covering Bayelsa and Kogi state elections
November 19, 2019 4:33 PM ET
Abuja, November 19, 2019 -- Nigerian authorities should investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the harassment of journalists working to cover the November 16 gubernatorial and federal assembly elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
Somaliland police shut down Horn Cable TV, arrest its editor
November 19, 2019 2:44 PM ET
Nairobi, November 19, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on authorities in the breakaway region of Somaliland to immediately allow the privately owned Horn Cable TV to operate freely and to unconditionally release its chief editor, Abdiqaadir Saleban Aseyr, also known as Coday....
Nigerian security forces fire on journalists, protesters
November 15, 2019 5:13 PM ET
Abuja, November 15, 2019 – Nigerian authorities should investigate attacks by security forces on journalists at a recent protest in Abuja, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Congolese journalist detained for five days over defamation complaint
November 6, 2019 3:56 PM ET
On October 21, 2019, police arrested Achiko Ngaya, editor of the privately owned newspaper Les Nouvelles du Soir, in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ngaya told CPJ. The journalist said he was detained for five days and charged with criminal defamation....
Three journalists beaten by Sierra Leone presidential bodyguards in September
November 1, 2019 1:41 PM ET
On September 8, 2019, bodyguards of Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio attacked three journalists who were covering a football match in Freetown, the capital, according to the journalists, who spoke to CPJ, and news reports....
Nigerian journalists charged with criminal defamation, breach of peace
October 29, 2019 12:07 PM ET
New York, October 29, 2019—Authorities should drop all charges against journalists Joe Ogbodu and Prince Amour Udemude, and reform Nigeria’s penal code to ensure that journalism is not criminalized, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Sierra Leone journalist Mahmud Tim Kargbo charged with criminal defamation
October 25, 2019 4:23 PM ET
Mahmud Tim Kargbo, a freelance reporter in Sierra Leone, was arrested and detained twice in September 2019 after Miatta Samba, an appeals court judge, lodged a complaint with the police against him for a report published September 9, 2019, on his Facebook page and in a WhatsApp group that...
Nigerian court grants anonymity to witnesses testifying against journalist Agba Jalingo
October 24, 2019 2:00 PM ET
New York, October 24, 2019 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern over a Nigerian court’s decision to grant anonymity to witnesses set to testify against journalist Agba Jalingo and deny the public access to the courtroom during the trial....
Congolese radio journalist attacked by ruling party supporters at Kinshasa rally
October 23, 2019 5:55 PM ET
On October 5, 2019, Dominique Dinanga, a reporter for the privately owned Top Congo FM radio station, was attacked by supporters of the ruling Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party at a rally in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where former Prime...