Kenya: Kenya - African Journalists Forge Shared Continental Priorities for Just Transition and Information Integrity

Organised from December 18 to 20, 2025, the workshop opened with an in-depth examination of just transition in the African context. Participants analysed how climate change is… Read more »

Tunisia: Tunisia - IFJ and Faj Deepen Support for Tunisian Journalists On Climate Journalism and Just Transition

Funded by Mondiaal FNV, the activity formed part of broader continental efforts to strengthen the role of journalist unions in responding to the growing impact of climate change on… Read more »

Tanzania: Journalist Killed While Covering Post-Election Demonstrations

Following the general election in Tanzania in October 2025, in which incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan was re-elected with 97.66% of the vote, large-scale demonstrations… Read more »

Africa: Kenya-African Journalist Leaders Demonstrate Strong Commitment to Take Concrete Actions Against Gbvh in Newsrooms and the Field of Work

The continental seminar, held from 15-16 December 2025, brought together 16 female union leaders from the five regions of Africa as well as the members of the FAJ Gender Council to… Read more »

Africa: FAJ Calls for Urgent Protection Amidst Growing Threats Confronting African Journalists

FAJ and its affiliated journalist unions and associations continue to document intimidation, arbitrary detention, online harassment, censorship and physical attacks against… Read more »

Africa: 111 Journalists Killed This Year, According to the IFJ

Since 1990 and the launch of its annual Killed list, the IFJ has recorded 3,156 deaths worldwide, an average of 91 deaths per year, and 859 in the last ten years Read more »

Somalia: New Report Shows Increase of Online and Offline Violence Against Women Journalists

The NUSOJ has documented 79 cases of sexual and gender-based violence against women journalists in Somalia between 2023 and 2025. Read more »

Africa: Journalists Must Not Be a Target

Since the beginning of 2025, at least six journalists and media workers have been killed in relation to their work in Sudan, according to IFJ data. The RSF paramilitary group has… Read more »

Niger: Three Journalists Arrested On Cybercrime Charges

The international Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns, in the strongest terms possible, this continued pattern of repression and intimidation meted out by the country's… Read more »

Africa: Stop the Digital War On Women Journalists: FAJ Urges Action to End Impunity in Africa

The 2025 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) theme, "Chat GBV: Raising Awareness on AI-facilitated Gender-Based Violence against Women… Read more »

Africa: Nine Reporters Suspended By Media Authority

According to local media reports, the EMA sent a letter to Germany's international broadcaster on 23 October, claiming that the broadcaster and its local correspondents had… Read more »

Africa: Junta Must Stop Arbitrarily Detaining Journalists

On 14 October, Zawenmanogo Dieudonné Zoungrana, publishing director of Aujourd'hui Au Faso newspaper, was detained at his home by members of the National Intelligence… Read more »

Sudan: Journalist Killed By Paramilitary Group in El Fasher

Suleiman's home in the Al-Daraja Al-Ula neighbourhood of El Fasher was hit by a drone strike carried out by the RSF on 3 October, Al Jazeera reported. The journalist, who was… Read more »

Kenya: Journalist Abducted and Brutally Assaulted Over Investigative Report

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), in condemning this act of brutality against a journalist who was simply… Read more »

Africa: African Journalists Condemn the Heightened and Relentless Deadly Attacks On Journalists in Gaza

We mourn our fallen colleagues, we recognise the trauma carried by victim journalists and we send our heartfelt solidarity to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), whose… Read more »

Africa: Climate Security Moves Up Africa's Agenda With Journalism in Front

Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, the AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, opened the high-level dialogue and underlined the urgency of acting now. "Africa is at the… Read more »

Africa: Media Regulator Suspends Radio Station for Three Months for Calling Military Govt a Junta

According to media reports, the CSC's decision followed the publication of a post on Radio Omega's Facebook page on 30 July, "which was deemed to contain malicious and discourteous… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Four Journalists Released From Forced Enlistment Into the Army

On 17 July Boukari Ouba, Vice President of the ABJ, and Luc Pagbelguem, a journalist with the independent TV station BF1, were also released. All four journalists have now been… Read more »

Equatorial Guinea: FAJ Applauds Journalists' Role in Advancing Democracy and Justice At the Citizens' Forum

Held under the theme "Reimagining Democracy and Advancing Reparative Justice: A New Social Contract", the Forum brought together more than 250 participants, including civil society… Read more »

Africa: Ivory Coast - IFJ Demands Immediate Release of Exiled Journalist Extradited to Benin

Journalist Hugues Comlan Sossoukpe, who has refugee status and is a vocal critic of the Beninese government, has been in exile in Togo since 2019. According to local media reports,… Read more »

Africa: IFJ Voice / July 2025 - Informing the Public, a Task More Necessary Than Ever

One thing concerns us in particular: the growing trust placed by some of the public in "influencers", such as the podcaster Joe Rogan in the United States. These influencers now… Read more »

Africa: Regulatory Agency Backs Down On Directive Undermining Media Freedom, After Widespread Condemnation

On 25 June, the CA issued a directive ordering television and radio stations to stop the live broadcasting of anti-government protests, citing "national security and public order… Read more »

Ethiopia: Journalist Released After Six Days in Custody

According to a statement issued by Hak Media and Communication, which publishes the Ethiopian Insider, journalist Waldyes "was taken into custody by plainclothes officers at the… Read more »

Kenya: Four Journalists Assaulted By Police and Robbed During National Day Celebrations

TV producers Steve Okedi of the Kenya Television Network (KTN), Marble Achieng of Nation Television (NTV), George Odiwuor, also of NTV, and journalist Ephantus Maina of Royal Media… Read more »

Niger: Three Journalists From Sahara FM Arrested in Agadez

Journalists Hamid Mahmoud, acting editor-in-chief of Sahara FM, Mahaman Sani, news presenter, and Massaouda Jaharou were all arrested on 7 May. Ibrahim Manzo Diallo, the Head of… Read more »