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Harassment and surveillanceOnline disinformation and propaganda
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 but she displayed lack of respect.Her manners are not schooled. She reduced roya…
27 Aug 2025 · Kenya · Verified
Intimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillance +1
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 harassed over a Land dispute report. She works with Media Hub Room
27 Aug 2025 · Nigeria · Verified
Intimidation and threats
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 Nigeria Television Authority and former president of the Nigerian Association of Wo…
26 Aug 2025 · Nigeria · Verified
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +1
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5 Aug 2025 · Kenya · Verified
Censorship and legal actionArrest and Detention
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 Gombe municipality’s prosecutor’s office, according to her lawyer, Eric Andoy Elu…
4 Aug 2025 · Dem. Rep. Congo · Verified
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +1
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 assignment to cover the Uganda National Musicians Federation’s (UNMF) weekly jam…
1 Aug 2025 · Uganda · Verified
Arrest and Detention
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 several nights in detention, was transferred between cities, and denied access to …
30 Jul 2025 · Nigeria · Verified
Online disinformation and propaganda
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 bodies flagged the case as part of rising threats to journalists ahead of the electi…
25 Jul 2025 · Côte d'Ivoire · Verified
Censorship and legal action
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 authorities imposed a two-month suspension on Anne Azewa, alongside L’Opinion Publique…
23 Jul 2025 · Cameroon · Verified
Intimidation and threats
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 had been erased from public memory, noting the lack of monuments, textbooks, or…
17 Jul 2025 · Congo · Verified
Physical violence
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 police officers attempted to control the situation. The video shows Wiafe reeling af…
11 Jul 2025 · Ghana · Verified
Physical violence
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, July 11, 2025. Three journalists, Kwabena Agyekum Banahene of the EIB Network; Sa…
11 Jul 2025 · Ghana · Verified
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats
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 disputed electoral commission. This appalling act, which involved forcibly register…
3 Jul 2025 · Kenya · Verified
Censorship and legal actionArrest and Detention
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 Senior Researcher in East and Southern Africa, said: “Amnesty International st…
1 Jul 2025 · Zimbabwe · Verified
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +1
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 Limited), were attacked and harassed while on assignment covering peaceful demons…
25 Jun 2025 · Kenya · Verified
Physical violenceCensorship and legal action
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 Media Group said its photojournalist David Gichuru was “struck by a stone hurle…
25 Jun 2025 · Kenya · Verified
Dakar, Senegal, June 11, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Togolese authorities to investigate and hold accountable the gendarmes who detained journalist Flore Monteau and forced her to delete footage she took of anti-government protests on June 6. Monteau was released the same day. “The arrest of Fl…
11 Jun 2025 · Togo · Verified
Physical violenceHarassment and surveillance
Journalists covering a standoff between former Kakamega governor Cleophas Malala and the police were violently harassed and attacked by the police as they were reporting on an unfolding incidence where the former governor attempted to gain access Kirobon Girls High School, where his drama students from Butere Girls re…
9 Apr 2025 · Kenya · Verified
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +3
The latest in a string of attacks on the media in Rwanda has targeted Agnes Uwimana, editor of Umurabyo, a private newspaper in Rwanda. She was charged with defaming the president and espousing genocide. Uwimana’s arrest and other attacks on the media have captured the attention of press freedom organizations for wee…
3 Apr 2025 · Rwanda · Verified
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats +7
Women Press Freedom strongly condemns the brutal murder of journalist Hanan Adam and her brother by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Adam, a journalist for the Ministry of Culture and Information in Al-Jazirah state and correspondent for Al-Maidan (the Sudanese Communist Party's newspaper), was killed alongside her br…
10 Dec 2024 · Sudan · Verified
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