Ethiopia: Ethiopian Security Detain Addis Standard Editor, Raid Newsroom, Seize Equipment

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to stop their relentless campaign to shutter the Addis Standard, whose editor-in-chief Yonas Kedir was detained… Read more »

Sudan: Sudan Army-Affiliated Group Detains Journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa, a contributor to local news website Hekaiyat and Baankhi Press, who… Read more »

Uganda: CPJ, Partners Note Uganda's 'Severe Restrictions' On Human Rights Ahead of UN Review

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined five other rights organizations in calling on the Ugandan government to enact legislative reform in support of human rights and to end… Read more »

Mozambique: Mozambique Court Nullifies Decree Allowing Government to Shut Down Internet

The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the decision by Mozambique's constitutional court to strike down a decree that allowed the government to shut down the internet. Read more »

Egypt: CPJ, Partners Demand Release of Egyptian Cartoonist Ashraf Omar On Arrest Anniversary

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to mark Ashraf Omar's second arrest anniversary by calling for his immediate release. Read more »

Zambia: Zambian Journalist Detained for Audio Leak Under Cyber Laws Weeks Before Elections

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Zambian authorities to immediately release journalist MacPherson Mukuka after four days in detention and not to criminalize journalism… Read more »

Sudan: CPJ Submits Joint Report to UN Ahead of Sudan Human Rights Review

The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the Sudanese Journalists' Syndicate (SJS), has submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council documenting the… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: In Eastern DR Congo, Journalists Face Death, Arson Threats for Reporting On War

Government allied Wazalendo militiamen have threatened to kill or capture one reporter and to burn down another's radio station because of unfavorable coverage, as frontlines shift… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria Jails Journalist for 2 Months Pending Trial Over Corruption Reporting

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to immediately release Secret Reporters journalist Stanley Ugagbe, who was remanded to prison on Tuesday for two… Read more »

Morocco: Moroccan Authorities Arrest Journalist Ali Lmrabet Over Alleged False Information

Moroccan authorities must immediately and unconditionally release French-Moroccan freelance journalist Ali Lmrabet, who has faced decades of pressure over his critical reporting,… Read more »

Egypt: Ahead of Appeal Ruling, CPJ and Partners Call On Egypt to Release Ahmed Douma

In a joint statement, the Committee to Protect Journalists joined several press freedom and human rights organizations on Thursday, urging Egyptian authorities to immediately and… Read more »

Algeria: Algerian Authorities Arrest Journalist Mourad At-Mimou Over Social Media Posts

Algerian authorities must immediately release freelance journalist and blogger Mourad At-Mimou and stop targeting journalists for their online commentary, the Committee to Protect… Read more »

Kenya: The Standard Editor Escapes Seizure By Armed Men After President's Censure

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kenyan authorities to investigate the attempt by heavily armed men to snatch The Standard Group Associate Editor Alex Kiprotich from… Read more »

Africa: CPJ, Partners Condemn Targeting of Journalists Covering South Africa's Anti-Migrant Protests

The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined seven other media freedom organizations in condemning attacks on foreign nationals and the targeting of journalists covering… Read more »

South Africa: More Than a Dozen South African Journalists Targeted As Anti-Migrant Deadline Looms

South African journalist Sakhiseni Nxumalo was reporting on an anti-migrant march, which turned into a deadly attack on foreign nationals, when he himself became a target because… Read more »

Uganda: Uganda Military Chief Orders Nation Media Group Shutdowns, Threatens Managing Director Susan Nsibirwa

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for Ugandan authorities to swiftly and unreservedly remove security forces from the premises of the privately owned Nation Media… Read more »

Tunisia: CPJ, Partners Call On EU to Review Approach Toward Tunisia Amid Critical Human Rights Decline

On Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists and five other press freedom and human rights organizations sent a joint letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der… Read more »

Egypt: Egypt Must Account for Missing Journalist Haidar Qandil

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of prominent journalist Haidar Qandil, who disappeared Monday after leaving… Read more »

Seychelles: CPJ Joins Coalition Opposing Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation Bill

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the Public Media Alliance and six other press freedom organizations in expressing serious concern over draft legislation in Seychelles… Read more »

Mozambique: Mozambique's Estacio Valoi Faces 'Clear Intimidation' Over Environmental Reporting

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mozambican authorities to return the equipment of prominent investigative journalist Estacio Valoi and to end the intimidation of… Read more »

Tunisia: Tunisian Journalist Khaoula Boukrim Sentenced in Absentia to 4 Years in Prison

Tunisian authorities should immediately overturn the four-year prison sentence imposed in absentia on prominent journalist Khaoula Boukrim, founder of local independent news… Read more »

Comoros: In Comoros, Journalist Arrested for Report On Jailed Ex-President's Health

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Comorian authorities to release journalist Toufé Maecha who was arrested on Monday at his home in the capital, Moroni, over his… Read more »

Ghana: Under Ghana's President Mahama, Near-Total Impunity for Attacks On 17 Journalists

When Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama took office in January 2025, pledging to restore "an era of true media freedom," journalists had reason to hope that attacks on the press… Read more »

Egypt: CPJ, Partners Urge EU to Push Egypt On Rights and Press Freedom Reforms

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations on Monday, expressing concern over Egypt's failure to show meaningful progress on… Read more »

Egypt: Egypt Sentences Commentator Ahmed Douma to One Year in Prison

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the release of Egyptian political commentator Ahmed Douma, who was handed a one-year prison sentence on Wednesday over his criticism… Read more »