Africa

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…

Dakar, October 21, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Madagascar to investigate those responsible for shooting two journalists and assaulting two others covering protests in Madagascar that forced the president to flee. “It is unacceptable that journalists who were simply reporting on a major news event were targeted by law enforcement agents,”…

Almost three years after Ethiopia’s civil war ended, Tigray remains tense and dangerous for journalists, who have been shot at, detained, raided, and swept up in a local power struggle that could trigger renewed conflict. Ethiopian foreign minister Gedion Timothewos warned the United Nations this month that in the northern state of Tigray — the…

New York, October 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s doubling down on his call for lawmakers to endorse the surveilling of journalists by South Africa’s State Security Agency and for reporters to be jailed for misinformation. In a text exchange with CPJ on Thursday — following…

Dakar, October 7, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Guinean authorities to ensure that Elhadj Adama Keita, father of exiled Guinean journalist Mamoudou Babila Keita, is safely returned home, following his abduction by unidentified men. On September 29, two men grabbed 75-year-old Adama Keita by the neck and forced him into a pickup vehicle…

Kinshasa, October 6, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to protect journalists, following a knife attack, robbery, and death threats against Patient Chimusa and the repeated detention of Aimé Paluku in government-controlled eastern regions. “The attacks and threats endured by journalist Patient Chimusa, along with the…

Kinshasa, September 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure the safety of journalist Pacifique Muliri, who has been in hiding since July, after receiving multiple calls and death threats related to his reporting on mining in eastern South Kivu province. From July 1 to 3,…