Twelve (12) journalists assassinated, five (5) killed accidentally, thirty-four (34) imprisoned, hundreds threatened, intimidated, attacked, assaulted: this is the bleak picture of press freedom in Africa in 2010.
Eastern Africa was the hottest zone of the continent in 2010 with countries like Eritrea (the largest journalists' prison in Africa), Somalia, where the belligerents of the unrelenting civil war, seems to have opted for a new strategy of terror consisting in kidnapping, destruction or confiscation of the media. Uganda also suddenly plunged into chaos with heavy losses of human lives (3 journalists killed) and many cases of arrests, threats and intimidation; the same applies to Burundi where the situation changed dramatically, thus provoking the angry reaction of human rights activists.
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