The International Press Institute (IPI) joins Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners in today renewing our joint call for democratic and comprehensive reform to the Poland’s public broadcasters which creates systematic safeguards to limit the ability of all governments, future and present, to meddle in editorial or institutional independence of the country’s public media. The […]

The IPI global network firmly condemns apparent efforts by Russia’s military to step up attacks on hotels and other civilian infrastructure popular among journalists working in Ukraine. In just over a week, two such hotels were destroyed in the eastern city of Kharkiv, leaving multiple journalists wounded and leading other correspondents to end their reporting […]

Five years after the murder of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale in Ghana, the International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the lack of progress in holding those responsible to account and calls for transparency from the authorities about the status of the investigation. Suale was shot dead in Accra, Ghana’s capital, on January 16, 2019, in an […]

In December 2023, IPI documented 20 threats to press freedom in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Censorship was the most common category of threats. DRC recorded the highest number of violations. State actors remain the main perpetrators, responsible for 95 percent of the recorded attacks on journalists and media.   In Mozambique, on December 14, […]