Published reports
234 reports
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Togo detains TV5 Monde journalist, forces deletion of protest videos
11 Jun 2025 · Togo · 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-gove…
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Nakuru-Based Journalists Attacked While Covering Cleophas Malala Standoff Involving School Play
9 Apr 2025 · Kenya · Verified
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…
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Agnes Uwimana, editor of Umurabyo attacked in Rwanda
3 Apr 2025 · Rwanda · Verified
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…
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Female journalist killed alongside her brother
10 Dec 2024 · Sudan · Verified
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 A…
Physical violenceIntimidation and threatsHarassment and surveillanceCensorship and legal actionDigital threatsOnline disinformation and propagandaEconomic pressureDenial of accessArrest and Detention
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Sudan: Journalist killed by paramilitary group in al-Gezira state
8 Dec 2024 · Sudan · Verified
On 8 December, members of the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed journalist Hanan Adam and her brother, Youssef Adam, in their home in Wad Al-Asha, eastern-central al-Gezira state. She was a correspondent for al-Midan, a …
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Security agent harasses Citizen TV journalist
5 Dec 2024 · Kenya · Verified
A security officer tries to grab a camera from a journalist forcibly. A Citizen TV journalist was Thursday reportedly harassed by a security agent in a troubling incident that has gone viral on social media. Kenyans on social media have c…
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Journalists in Mozambique detained for covering post election protests
13 Nov 2024 · Mozambique · Verified
South African journalists Bongani Siziba and Sbonelo Mkhasibe as well as Mozambican reporter Charles Mangwiro were arrested and detained on November 13 for reporting on public demonstrations against alleged election fraud in the country’s …
Arrest and Detention
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“I Will Not Stay Silent at the Cost of Truth”: Sudanese Female Journalists Face Threats of Persecution and Death
25 Oct 2024 · Sudan · Verified
After publishing an investigative report exposing rape events against women and girls in Darfur, Sudanese journalist and human rights activist Fadwa Al-Khazraji is still haunted by a phone call from an overseas caller who threatened her an…
Intimidation and threats
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Somali journalist Amun Abdullahi Mohamed murdered
18 Oct 2024 · Somalia · Verified
Award-winning Somali-Swedish journalist Amun Abdullahi Mohamed, who was murdered on October 18 by two gunmen with reported ties to the insurgent group Al-Shabab. Reports indicate that there is no known motive for the shooting. However, the…
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Togolese journalists attacked
29 Sep 2024 · Togo · Verified
At least six Togolese journalists were attacked while covering an opposition party meeting, including Yawo Klousse, the news director of Afrique en ligne. Women journalists face a variety of challenges, including online harassment, which …
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Nigeria police charge journalists with cybercrimes for corruption reporting
20 Sep 2024 · Nigeria · Verified
On September 20, police in western Lagos State separately arrested Olurotimi Olawale, editor of the privately owned National Monitor newspaper, and Precious Eze Chukwunonso, publisher of the privately owned News Platform website. On Septem…
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Guinea Bissau: Journalist union President denied the right to cover government activities
28 Aug 2024 · Guinea-Bissau · Verified
The President of the Sindicato de jornalistas e Tecnicos de Comunicao Social de Guine- Bissau (SINJOTECS), Indira Correia Balde, was asked, on 22 August, by a government minister, not to cover any government activity. The International Fe…
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In Nigeria, at least 56 journalists attacked and harassed as protests roil region
21 Aug 2024 · Nigeria · Verified
Zainab was among 56 journalists attacked during the #EndBadGovernance protests in Abuja in 2024. She was struck by police while wearing her press credentials, raising questions about the safety of female reporters during civil unrest
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Two female journalist Nimo Muhidin and Safa Osman intimidated by the Somali police as they attempt to cover Mogadishu Protest
19 Aug 2024 · Somalia · Verified
Between August 18-19, 2024, protests erupted in Mogadishu, triggered by the closure of the Bakaro market due to newly imposed taxes. Journalists covering the demonstrations, including Nimo Muhidin, a reporter for Somali Cable TV, and freel…
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Maverick Aoko faces cybercrime charges over tweet about woman
19 Aug 2024 · Kenya · Verified
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/maverick-aoko-faces-cybercrime-charges-over-tweet-about-woman-4730568 Journalist and blogger Scophine Aooko Otieno alias Maverickwas arrested and arained in court charged with publishing false information …
Arrest and Detention
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Journalists injured by police while covering protests in Nairobi, Kenya
8 Aug 2024 · Kenya · Verified
While covering anti government protests, police lobbed tear gas at journalists. Cecilia Ngunjiri shares her ordeal of how she was beaten by clubs after being overwhelmed by the teargas. https://nation.africa/kenya/news/maandamano-raila-un-…
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POET AND JOURNALIST IN EGYPT FACES INETENSE CYBERBULLYING
6 Aug 2024 · Kenya · Verified
Fabricated vulgar photos of poet and Journalist Mahasen Hawary from Egypt, were posted inline leaving her deeply distressed
Online disinformation and propaganda
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Zambian Female Journalist Targeted by Cyberbullying After Critical Coverage
6 Aug 2024 · Zambia · Verified
Sandra Mumba was targeted by cyberbullies following her critical coverage of government corruption. She wrote a series of investigative reports exposing alleged government corruption. Following the publication of her reports, Sandra Mumba …
Online disinformation and propaganda
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Immigration officers assault female journalist in Edo
2 Aug 2024 · Nigeria · Verified
Officers suspected to be of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have assaulted a female journalist working with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Joy Odigie, in Benin City, Edo State. It was gathered that the female journalists visited …
Physical violenceIntimidation and threats
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Guinea-Bissau: Women Press Freedom Demands Accountability After Police Brutally Assault Djuma Culubali
31 Jul 2024 · Guinea-Bissau · Verified
Women Press Freedom is appalled at the brutality faced by journalist Djuma Culubali during a protest in Guinea-Bissau that has left her reeling from the trauma and severe injuries. We strongly condemn the violence against the journalist pe…
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