The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the decision of a Sudanese court to sentence a journalist to one month in prison for reporting on the alleged rape of a female opposition activist by members of the country’s security forces. Fatimah Ghazali was jailed on Tuesday, 5 July, freelance journalist and human rights advocate Abdelgadir […]

Two Swedish journalists were injured and are now in Ethiopian custody after the pair “illegally” entered an ethnically Somali part of the country where journalists are not permitted, reports say, an Ethiopian government spokesperson told the media, Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, photographers for Kontinent photojournalist agency, were accompanying members of the Ogaden National Liberation […]

Glen Johnson is set to be deported from Yemen, media reports said on Friday 1 July, citing multiple Yemeni authorities.  It remains unclear why he was detained. A report on Al Jazeera said this is not the first time that Johnson has had a run-in with the Yemen authorities. Last year, while investigation a story […]

Yesterday, Ethiopian officials told the media that two journalists who were detained last week have been accused of planning to sabotage power and phone lines, and recruiting people to destabilize the country, Reuters and other news outlets reported. Woubshet Taye, deputy editor of the publication Awramba Times, and Reyot Alemu from the Feteh newspaper, were […]