The Thai authorities forced opposition TV broadcaster People TV off the air again on Saturday, a day after opposition ‘Red Shirt’ protestors overran an army blockade and briefly forced the government to reverse its earlier decision to censor the channel. An army spokesperson said security forces had taken action at the broadcaster late on Friday, […]

The Gambian founder and managing director of Jollof News Online, Yusupha Cham, who lives in exile in Birmingham, UK, told IPI on Wednesday that he has received three emailed death threats since the beginning of the year. Copies of the emails were forwarded to the IPI Secretariat in Vienna. The first email, from a Hotmail […]

Sixteen years after the start of the Rwanda genocide, the International Press Institute (IPI) spoke with Rwandan journalist Faith Mbabazi, chief editor of Radio Rwanda, the country’s largest radio station, based in Kigali. Although she was only 16 when the killings began, Mbabazi – who also heads the Association of Rwanda Women In the Media […]

A Congolese journalist was shot dead by men in military fatigues, in front of his home in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Beni, on Monday, according to two Congolese journalists who knew him well. Nicodème Bakoleta, the director of Radio Soleil, a new radio station in Beni, said well-known cameraman Patient Chibeya […]