September 10, 2025
Tanzania: Govt Suspends Popular News Forum JamiiForums as Election Nears
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tanzanian authorities to lift a 90-day suspension of the popular discussion and news platform JamiiForums and to ensure that media can… Read more »
Sudan: Sudanese Journalist Detained By Paramilitary Group Since July
In July 2025, soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a Sudanese paramilitary group, detained journalist El-Rashid Mohamed Haroun from the Ardeiba market in El-Geneina, West… Read more »
Kenya: Spyware Installed On Kenyan Filmmakers' Phones in Police Custody
The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely alarmed by the installation of spyware on two Kenyan filmmakers' phones while the devices were in police custody, and calls on… Read more »
September 09, 2025
Tanzania: Tanzanian Authorities Suspend Online Forum for 90 Days, Weeks Ahead of Election
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tanzanian authorities to lift a 90-day suspension of the popular discussion and news platform JamiiForums and to ensure that media can… Read more »
September 08, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Authorities Detain Journalist Tuver Wundi After Ouster By Goma Rebels
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on government and rebel authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to stop harassing reporter Tuver Wundi, who has been detained… Read more »
August 27, 2025
Mozambique: MissingNotForgotten - CPJ, Misa Mozambique Call for Investigation Into 2 Journalist Disappearances
Ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Mozambican chapter of the Media Institute of… Read more »
August 20, 2025
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Journalist Abducted By Masked Men - 2 Others Detained
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the abduction of Ethiopian newspaper editor Yonas Amare, the arbitrary detention of journalist Khadar Mohamed Ismael, and… Read more »
August 19, 2025
Guinea Bissau: Guinea-Bissau Shuts Down Two Portuguese Media Outlets, Expels Their Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Guinea-Bissau to rescind an August 15, 2025, order effectively suspending the work of the Portuguese state-owned news… Read more »
Madagascar: Madagascar Threatens Criminal Sanctions Against 2 Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malagasy authorities to retract threats of criminal prosecution directed at Gaëlle Borgia, a freelancer who contributes to TV5… Read more »
August 12, 2025
Ghana: Ghanaian Officers Attack Journalists Reporting On Demolition
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for Ghanaian authorities to swiftly and comprehensively conclude investigations into the July 30 attack on journalist Carlos Lorlornyo… Read more »
August 07, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: 2 DRC Journalists Jailed Following Defamation Complaints
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to swiftly release Glody Ndaya, director general of the privately owned news site… Read more »
August 05, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: In DR Congo, Radio Nsenda Muana Suspended, 3 Journalists Detained
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the reopening of the privately owned Radio Nsenda Muana in the city of Mwene-Ditu, in the central Democratic Republic of the Congo,… Read more »
July 31, 2025
Burundi: Burundi Journalist Sandra Muhoza Still Behind Bars, Two Months After Appeal Ruling
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Burundi authorities to immediately release La Nova Burundi reporter Sandra Muhoza, who remains in prison two months after an appeal… Read more »
July 28, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: 3 DRC Journalists Beaten, Detained for Trying to Question Provincial Minister
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to immediately drop legal proceedings against three journalists who were beaten… Read more »
July 24, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Journalist Rosie Pioth Sent Death Threats for Anniversary Report On 1982 Airport Bombing
Authorities in the Republic of the Congo must ensure the safety of journalist Rosie Pioth following death threats for her reporting on the anniversary of the 1982 bombing of the… Read more »
Ghana: Ghanaian Police, Masked Man Attack Journalists Covering Local Election
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ghanaian authorities to ensure the safety of journalists reporting on elections, after three incidents during a local election on the… Read more »
July 23, 2025
Liberia: Liberian Journalist Abducted By Traditional Group After Broadcasting Government Policy
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Liberian authorities to ensure justice for journalist Alex Seryea Yormie, who was abducted for several hours and brutalized by members… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Journalist Sadam Kapanda Receives Death Threats for Coverage of Kasaï Province Conflict
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo must ensure the safety of journalist Sadam Kapanda wa Kapanda, who has received death threats from at least two local officials… Read more »
Egypt: CPJ, 22 Others Call for Egyptian Cartoonist Ashraf Omar's Release a Year After Arrest
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 22 other organizations in a joint letter calling for Al-Manassa cartoonist Ashraf Omar's release a year after he was arrested July 22,… Read more »
July 22, 2025
Egypt: Egypt's Intelligence-Controlled Media Company Retaliates Against Programs, Hosts Critical of Government
A media company linked to Egyptian authorities suspended three prominent television programs after their hosts criticized the government and road safety failures, raising concerns… Read more »
July 21, 2025
Malawi: CPJ Welcomes Defamation Decriminalization in Malawi
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the Malawi Constitutional Court's landmark July 16 ruling striking down section 200 of the penal code criminalizing defamation. Read more »
July 14, 2025
Senegal: Senegalese Commentator Arrested, Prime Minister Calls for Media Boycott
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Senegalese authorities to release news commentator Badara Gadiaga, to cease arresting journalists, and to refrain from retaliating… Read more »
July 10, 2025
Tunisia: CPJ, Partners - Tunisian Authorities Must Release of Sonia Dahmani, End Misuse of Cybercrime Decree-Law 54
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 17 other press freedom and human rights organizations on July 10 in a statement condemning Tunisia's ongoing crackdown on freedom of… Read more »
July 09, 2025
Tunisia: Tunisia Sentences Sister in Absentia for Advocating for Jailed Journalist Sonia Dahmani
CPJ urges Tunisian authorities to cease the prosecution of family members of journalists advocating for their release after a Tunis court on July 1 sentenced in absentia Ramla… Read more »
July 08, 2025
Sudan: Sudanese Forces Arrest Journalists NASR Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar in North Darfur
Members of the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council (SLM-TC), an armed group affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), arrested freelance journalists Nasr Yaqoub… Read more »
