Africa: RSF's 2024 Round-Up - Journalism Pays an Exorbitant Human Price in Conflicts and Repressive Regimes

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2024 Round-up reveals an alarming intensification of attacks on journalists -- especially in conflict zones, where over half of the news… Read more »

West Africa: RSF Strengthens Its Network of Lawyers in Sahel Countries to Defend the Right to Information

At a meeting in the Ivorian capital Abidjan at the end of October, the network of press freedom lawyers created by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in February welcomed new members… Read more »

Benin: RSF Condemns The Presidential Interference Undermining Public Television's Editorial Independence

Since January 2024, an editorial committee comprised of members of the office of the presidency and three ministries has tightly controlled the information broadcast on public… Read more »

Mozambique: Mozambique's Journalists Are Trapped in Post-Election Violence

The political turbulence rocking Mozambique since the start of the protests against fraud in the general elections, which were held on 9 October, has made journalism a dangerous… Read more »

West Africa: RSF Calls on Authorities in the Sahel Region to Sign the Declaration on the Right to Information

At the summit co-organised by UNESCO and the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa on 6 and 7 November to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists,… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Authorities Confirm the Conscription of Three Missing Media Professionals Amidst a Growing Crackdown on the Press

In front of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), the Burkinabe authorities broke their silence on the fate of three journalists who disappeared in June:… Read more »

Mauritius: Five Journalists Targeted by Wiretapping in Mauritius: RSF Calls For An Independent Investigation

Over the past few days, excerpts of phone conversations between politicians, members of civil society and journalists in Mauritius have been leaked.. Five well-known journalists… Read more »

Ghana: Ghana: RSF Condemns the Assault of Three Environmental Journalists Reporting on a Mining Site

Erastus Asare Donkor, Majid Alidu and Nicholas Suantah, journalists for Multimedia Group Limited, were violently assaulted by a group of armed men while reporting on a mining site… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Repression of Media Freedom Continues With Ban on Rebroadcasting Foreign Radio Programmes

The Superior Council for Communication (CSC), Burkina Faso’s national communications regulator,  has banned the rebroadcasting of foreign radio programmes until further… Read more »

West Africa: The Sahel: RSF And Over 500 Community Radio Stations Call For The Protection of Local Journalism

From the Chadian city of Mongo to the Soum province in Burkina Faso, over 500 community radio stations in the Sahel and neighbouring countries have joined Reporters Without Borders… Read more »

Africa: Four More African Media Outlets Committed to Trustworthy Journalism Obtain JTI Certification

The Nigerian news site NatureNews, the Ivorian radio station Gbêkê FM and the Senegalese news sites PressAfrik and Financial Afrik have followed Niger's Studio Kalangou… Read more »

Rwanda: RSF Sounds the Alarm on President Kagame's Horrific Press Freedom Record as Election Looms

Several candidates have been disqualified from Rwanda's upcoming presidential elections, which will be held on 15 July. This means Paul Kagame, who has been in power for 24 years,… Read more »

Guinea: RSF Stages Protest Against Media Censorship

After demonstrating in support of journalists in Conakry in March, the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Sub-Saharan Africa desk protested in Dakar on 27 June, calling on Mamadi… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: War in the DRC: Community Radio Stations Taken Hostage, Journalists Threatened in North Kivu

In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is in the throes of armed conflict, members of the national army have taken over the premises of two community radio… Read more »

Guinea: RSF Calls on ECOWAS to React to Media Shutdowns in Guinea

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Guinean government’s illegal decision to strip six privately-owned independent broadcasters – four radio stations and two… Read more »

Gambia: Swiss Court Convicts Former Interior Minister For Crimes Against Humanity, Including Torture of Two Journalists

A court in Switzerland has convicted a Gambian former top official for crimes against humanity and has sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Military Junta Blocks Access to More International Media Institutions

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an alarming decline in press freedom in Burkina Faso, whose military junta suspended access to nine international news outlets in the space… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: RSF Has Installed Satellite Internet Connections for Journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has equipped nine media outlets and journalists’ associations in the Democratic Republic of Congo with satellite Internet connections since… Read more »

Gabon: RSF Deplores Gabon's Refusal to Let Foreign Reporters Cover Elections

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Gabonese government’s refusal to issue any press accreditation to foreign reporters who wanted to cover the general elections on… Read more »

North Africa: RSF Appoints Florianne Heine As Regional Director for the North Africa Bureau

The international secretariat of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Paris is pleased to announce that Florianne Heine has been appointed as the director of its Tunis-based North… Read more »

Senegal: TV Channel Suspended, Internet Access Restricted Amid Violence Protests

Political unrest and violence in Senegal must not be used as grounds for restricting the right to report the news, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF), condemning a TV… Read more »

Cameroon: Cameroonian Journalist Zogo's Murder Was a State Crime, Official Confesses

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has learned that many Cameroonian intelligence officers have been arrested in connection with journalist Martinez Zogo’s murder, and that a… Read more »

Senegal: Senegalese Journalist Pape Alé Niang Released Conditionally

The Senegalese judicial authorities finally freed Dakar Matin website editor Pape Alé Niang conditionally yesterday (10 January) following a major campaign for his release.… Read more »

Eritrea: RSF Urges Swedish Judicial Authorities to Reverse Dawit Isaak Decision

In an op-ed published in Norway, Sweden and South Africa, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) explains why it has formally asked the Swedish prosecutor's office to reverse its decision… Read more »

Mozambique: Journalist's Killer Gets 30-Year Prison Sentence But Mysteries Remain

Reporters Without Borders welcomed the 30-year jail sentence passed on 20 January 2006 to Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), for leading the commando that… Read more »