May 15

• Equatorial Guinea: Online Media Crackdown Ahead of Elections - Report

  Reporters Without Borders condemns the government's blocking of access to Facebook and certain opposition websites since 12 May. The targets include the site of the main opposition... Read more »

April 24

• Libya: Journalist Freed On Bail but Still Faces Criminal Defamation Trial [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is relieved by journalist Amara Hassan Al-Khitabi's release on bail yesterday after four months in detention but is disturbed that he is still charged... Read more »

• Somalia: Journalist Gunned Down Outside Mogadishu Home [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that another journalist has been killed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. It was Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh, who worked for Somali National... Read more »

• Egypt: Journalists Attacked While Covering Clashes Between Rival Demonstrators [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is worried about the recent widespread physical attacks on journalists, who were again targeted when rival demonstrations by Muslim Brotherhood supporters... Read more »

April 22

• Swaziland: Magazine Editor Gets Two Years in Prison or Stiff Fine [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is alarmed to learn that the Swaziland high court has sentenced Bheki Makhubu, the editor of The Nation magazine, to a fine of 200,000 emalangeni (16,700... Read more »

April 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: Journalist Faces Year in Prison, 100,000 Dollars in Damages in Libel Case [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders urges the Congolese judicial authorities to come to their senses in the case of Nicaise Kibel Bel'Oka, the publisher of the bimonthly Les Coulisses in... Read more »

April 15

• Chad: Opposition Blogger Held Incommunicado For Past Three Weeks [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about Jean Etienne Laokolé, an opposition blogger who has been held by the Chadian security forces for the past three weeks, and... Read more »

April 11

• Cote d'Ivoire: Hollande Asked to Raise Journalist's Disappearance With Visiting Ivorian President [press release]

  The family of Guy-André Kieffer, a journalist with French and Canadian dual nationality who disappeared in Abidjan in 2004, and two allied groups have written to French... Read more »

April 10

• Egypt: Dutch Reporter Arrested On Suspicion of Spying, Held for 24 Hours [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders condemns Dutch journalist Rena Netjes' arrest on suspicion of spying on 8 April. Cairo correspondent for BNR Nieuwsradio and Het Parool, she was released... Read more »

• Nigeria: Police Hold Two Leadership Journalists [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders demands that the Nigerian government immediately free two journalists arrested for refusing to name their sources for an article critical of President... Read more »

April 6

• Sudan: Intelligence Agency Steps Up Offensive Against Khartoum Press [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) ordered Al Nour Mohamed Al Nour's suspension as editor-in-chief of... Read more »

April 5

• Egypt: TV Satirist's Arrest, Increase in Attacks On Journalists [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns last weekend's interrogation of Bassem Youssef, a popular presenter and satirist on Egypt's CBC television, who is accused of insulting... Read more »

• Burundi: Senate Urged Not to Approve Proposed New Media Law [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders condemns the Burundian national assembly's adoption yesterday of a bill that would rein in press freedom by reducing protection for sources, increasing... Read more »

April 2

• Africa: Disquiet About Death Penalty for Man Convicted of Journalist's Murder [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders deplores the death sentence that a military court passed yesterday on a man found guilty of radio journalist Hassan Yusuf Absuge's murder last September... Read more »

• Africa: RWB Workshop On Digital Security for News Providers On 29 March At WSF [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders, an international NGO that defends freedom of information, will organize a workshop on digital security for news providers on 29 March as part of the... Read more »

• Central African Republic: Call for Compensation After Rebels Ransack and Loot Bangui Media [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the irresponsible and unacceptable behaviour of members of the Seleka rebel coalition who have robbed or ransacked several news media since... Read more »

• Somalia: Reporters Without Borders 'Saddened' by Journalist's Murder [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that a young woman journalist, Rahmo Abdulkadir, was gunned down on a Mogadishu street two days ago. Shot five times, she died on the... Read more »

• Mali: Detained Newspaper Editor Charged Over Soldier's Open Letter [press release]

  Reporters Without Borders is outraged to learn that Boukary Daou, a newspaper editor who has been held since 6 March for publishing an army officer's open letter, was finally... Read more »

March 15

• Egypt: TV Host Accused of 'Promoting Terrorism'

  Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about a judicial investigation into TV journalist Dina Abdel Fattah that is indicative of the decline in freedom of information in... Read more »

March 10

• Libya: Gunmen Storm Tripoli TV Station, Still Holding Two People

  Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday's attack by gunmen on the Tripoli headquarters of the pro-liberal, privately-owned TV station Al-Assema and voices deep concern about... Read more »

March 8

• Mali: Newspaper Editor Arrested for Publishing Army Officer's Open Letter

  Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns yesterday's arrest by the state security service of Le Républicain editor Boukary Ndaou, who is still being held in an unknown... Read more »

March 7

• Tunisia: Death Threats and Attacks On Freedom of Expression Intensify

  The following is an open letter to the authorities in Tunisia, initiated by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), Norwegian PEN, PEN International... Read more »

March 1

• Mali: French Regulator Objects to Bodies in TV Report On Mali Atrocities

  Reporters Without Borders is astounded by the warnings that France's Higher Council for Broadcasting (CSA) has given to the state-owned national TV broadcaster, France... Read more »

February 28

• Morocco: Environmental Citizen-Journalist Gets 10 Months in Prison

  Reporters Without Borders condemns the 10-month jail sentence that was passed last week on citizen-journalist Mohamed Attaoui on a spurious charge of "working as a local official... Read more »

• Tanzania: Letter to Home Minister About Harassment of Leading Journalist

  Reporters Without Borders wrote to Tanzanian minister of home affairs Emmanuel Nchimbi last week to call for an end to the harassment of the journalist Erick Kabendera and his... Read more »