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• Female journalist detained while covering protest (Kinshasa,)

  9 Sep 2025 · Zambia · Verified

  Reporter briefly detained by police while covering a street protest; equipment seized and verbally threatened to stop reporting.

  Intimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillanceDenial of access

• Mogadishu Woman Journalist Arrested and Physically Assaulted After Exposing Armed Robbery by Uniformed Men - SJS

  5 Sep 2025 · Somalia · Verified

  MOGADISHU, Somalia – 28 August 2025 – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) condemns the unlawful arrest and physical assault of woman journalist Anisa Ahmed, who works for the online channel Dalbile TV, by members of the Mogadishu police…

  Physical violenceIntimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillanceCensorship and legal actionArrest and DetentionOnline Violence

• Trainee Journalist Arrested for Trying to Cover Constitutional Council Proceedings

  4 Sep 2025 · Cameroon · Verified

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  Intimidation and threatsArrest and Detention

• NAWOJ FCT CONDEMNS HARRASMENT OF FORMER NATIONAL PRESIDENT AND FEMALE JOURNALIST BY NRC MANAGING DIRECTOR

  29 Aug 2025 · Nigeria · Verified

  A female Journalist and former President of Nawoj, Ladi Bala, was today in Abuja,harassed, intimidated and foul use of language by the Managing Director of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, Mr Kayode Opeifa, while going about her lawful du…

  Intimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillance

• Yvonne Okwara faces online harassment

  27 Aug 2025 · Kenya · Verified

  Yvonne Okwara was insulted on facebook a day after her interview with Kenya's deputy president Rigathi Gachagua Yvonne Okwara is indeed a state house project.She did not want Ruto mentioned. She is not plausible. Gachagua was so fatherly …

  Harassment and surveillanceOnline disinformation and propaganda

• .IPC CONDEMNS ARREST OF JOURNALIST AZUKA OGUJIUBA OVER LAND DISPUTE REPORT

  27 Aug 2025 · Nigeria · Verified

  Police in Nigeria arrested , detained and harassed a female Journalist Azuka Ogujiuba. The female Journalist, who had been detained twice by the police, had repeatedly summoned her to Abuja , despite her living in Lagos. She's been harass…

  Intimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillanceArrest and Detention

• NRC MD apologises for harassing journalist at train crash scene

  26 Aug 2025 · Nigeria · Verified

  The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Kayode Opeifa, has issued a public apology for verbally harassing journalist Ladi Bala during her coverage of the Abuja-Kaduna train derailment. Bala, a correspondent with the Nig…

  Intimidation and threats

• I was beaten

  5 Aug 2025 · Kenya · Verified

  Because I said MustGo and wrote in the Star newspaper.

  Physical violenceIntimidation and threatsArrest and Detention

• Glody Ndaya, director general of the privately owned news site Eventsrdc.com, jailed following defamation complaints

  4 Aug 2025 · Dem. Rep. Congo · Verified

  2 DRC journalists jailed following defamation complaints. The two journalists were arrested separately by police in Kinshasa on August 4, 2025. Ndaya was first detained at the provincial police station then transferred on August 5 to the G…

  Censorship and legal actionArrest and Detention

• Betty Nampijja , was robbed on gun point shortly after she returned from covering a late night assignment

  1 Aug 2025 · Uganda · Verified

  Bukedde TV presenter Betty Nampijja was waylaid by two armed robbers who forced their way into her home and made off with several valuables. The attack happened shortly after she returned home at around 4:00 AM, from a late night official …

  Physical violenceIntimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillance

• Nigerian Journalist Jailed After Refusing To Produce Anti-Senator Natasha Jingle For Fugitive, Sandra Duru, Linked To Akpabio, Despite Court Orders

  30 Jul 2025 · Nigeria · Verified

  Despite a restraining order issued by a High Court in Abia State protecting her from arrest, Ogbonnaya was arrested by police, accused of defamation and remanded in Keffi Prison following a lower court’s intervention in Abuja. She spent se…

  Arrest and Detention

• M’ma Camara — France 24 (regional coordinator) targeted by a coordinated online smear campaign and intimidation after covering opposition political events

  25 Jul 2025 · Côte d'Ivoire · Verified

  Smear campaign reported publicly 22 July 2025, in Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan M’ma Camara gpt targeted by a coordinated online smear campaign and intimidation after covering opposition political events in June; RSF and other press-freedom bodi…

  Online disinformation and propaganda

• Anne Azewa and Colleagues Suspended from their Jobs for Two Months

  23 Jul 2025 · Cameroon · Verified

  Anne Azewa, a Cameroonian journalist, published remarks considered critical of the acting Minister of Mines and Industry. Her commentary was deemed by authorities as “damaging to the honour” of the minister. In response, regulatory author…

  Censorship and legal action

• Congo journalist Rosie Pioth sent death threats for anniversary report on 1982 airport bombing

  17 Jul 2025 · Congo · Verified

  In July 2025, journalist Pioth, a correspondent for France 24 and director of Fact Checking Congo, faced harassment and threats after publishing an article on the anniversary of a decades-old bombing. Her report highlighted how the tragedy…

  Intimidation and threats

• ATV Ghana Reporter Injured by Police Pepper Spray at Polling Station

  11 Jul 2025 · Ghana · Verified

  An ATV Ghana reporter, Vida Wiafe, was injured after being struck with pepper spray deployed by police at a polling station, according to footage posted online by Metro TV Ghana. The incident occurred amid unrest at the station, where poli…

  Physical violence

• Ghana: Police officer, thugs assault three journalists covering parliamentary election re-run

  11 Jul 2025 · Ghana · Verified

  The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns physical attacks against journalists reporting on the parliamentary election re-run taking place at Ablekuma North, a constituency in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana today, Ju…

  Physical violence

• Woman journalist seized by NISA, forced into voter registration in Mogadishu

  3 Jul 2025 · Kenya · Verified

  The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) strongly condemns the physical assault and unlawful seizure of Mogadishu-based woman journalist Shukri Caabi Abdi on Thursday, 3 July 2025, by individuals believed to be affiliated with Somalia's disp…

  Physical violenceIntimidation and threats

• Zimbabwe: Arbitrary detention of journalist an assault on freedom of expression

  1 Jul 2025 · Zimbabwe · Verified

  Responding to the arrest and detention of Faith Zaba, editor of the weekly Zimbabwe Independent, on allegations of undermining the authority of or insulting the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s…

  Censorship and legal actionArrest and Detention

• Malawi: Pattern of attacks on female journalists — Mercy Matonga, Faith Kaunde, Cathy Maulidi and Aubrey Kuyere

  25 Jun 2025 · Kenya · Verified

  MISA Malawi documented a pattern of physical and online attacks targeting journalists in Malawi in 2025 June 26, 2025 — Physical attacks during demonstrations:Mercy Matonga (Times Group) and Faith Kaunde (contributor, Nation Publications L…

  Physical violenceIntimidation and threatsDenial of access

• Live coverage of protests banned in Kenya, at least 2 journalists injured

  25 Jun 2025 · Kenya · Verified

  NTV reporter Ruth Sarmwei was treated in hospital after being hit on the leg by an unknown projectile while interviewing protestors in the city of Nakuru. Joseph Openda, chairperson of the Nakuru Journalists Association, told CPJ. Standard…

  Physical violenceCensorship and legal action