Africa

Nairobi, September 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tanzanian authorities to lift a 90-day suspension of the popular discussion and news platform JamiiForums and to ensure that media can operate freely in the countdown to October’s elections. “JamiiForums’ suspension is the latest sign of the Tanzanian government’s deepening suppression of public discourse and raises concerns about…

Kinshasa, September 8, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on government and rebel authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to stop harassing reporter Tuver Wundi, who has been detained twice and dismissed from his job at the national broadcaster in the eastern city of Goma. “Detaining Tuver Wundi without just cause is a…

Nairobi, September 5, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to unconditionally release Sheger FM radio editor Tigist Zerihun and reporter Mintamir Tsegaw, who were taken into custody on September 3 following the forced removal of Mintamir’s August 29 report on widespread protests over poor working conditions for healthcare workers, according to multiple news outlets. The Ethiopian Media Authority—the regulatory body responsible for…

New York, August 27, 2025— Ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Mozambican chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Mozambique) call on authorities to provide credible answers on the fate of two journalists, Ibraimo Abú Mbaruco and Arlindo…

Nairobi, August 20, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the abduction of Ethiopian newspaper editor Yonas Amare, the arbitrary detention of journalist Khadar Mohamed Ismael, and the incommunicado detention of radio host Abdulsemed Mohammed.  On August 13, masked men reportedly wearing military uniforms abducted Yonas, who works with the privately owned Reporter newspaper, from…

New York, August 19, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Guinea-Bissau to rescind an August 15 order effectively suspending the work of the Portuguese state-owned news outlets LUSA and RTP and expelling Portuguese journalists working with them. Authorities ordered the immediate and indefinite closure of the LUSA and RTP offices and the discontinuation of…

Nairobi, August 19, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malagasy authorities to retract threats of criminal prosecution directed at Gaëlle Borgia, a freelancer who contributes to TV5 Monde, and Radio France Internationale (RFI) correspondent Pauline Le Troquier, and to ensure that the press can cover matters of public interest without interference. According to the…

Kampala, August 15, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the breakaway region of Somaliland to unconditionally release Facebook-based journalist Ahmed Mohamud Dool, who has been in detention without charge since August 5. “Ahmed Mohamud Dool’s ongoing detention is the latest sign that Somaliland is becoming an unbearably hostile environment for the media,”…

When a South African solar panel company last month dropped its legal battle over a gag order preventing journalist Bongani Hans from reporting on allegations of misleading clients, Hans told the Committee to Protect Journalists that he saw it as “a victory for media and press freedom.” But for Hans and others in the country’s…

Abuja, Nigeria, August 12, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for Ghanaian authorities to swiftly and comprehensively conclude investigations into the July 30 attack on journalist Carlos Lorlornyo Atsu Calony and threats made against camera operator Jonas Zodzi Voergborlo. On July 30, at least seven military officers, some of whom were wearing Ghana’s National Intelligence Bureau…