The IPI global network strongly condemns the arrest and detention of prominent investigative journalist Ale Pape Niang, who has been targeted repeatedly by authorities over the past nine months. Authorities must drop all charges and immediately release Niang so he can receive needed medical attention.  Niang, Editor-in-chief of online news outlet Dakar Matin, was arrested […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) joins the undersigned international media freedom organisations in welcoming the court injunction staying the revocation of the business licence of Klan Kosova, an important legal ruling which blocks an effort by the government to shut down the country’s largest private television channel. On 2 August 2023, judges at the Commercial […]

The IPI global network today joined 57 organizations across the globe as part of the  #KeepItOn coalition in calling on the Senegalese government to end its use of internet shutdowns and blocking as a tool to censor and control information. This joint statement comes in reaction to the government’s shutdown of mobile internet on July […]

IPI Africa’s monitoring of press freedom threats and violations in June recorded at least  40 incidents in 15 countries across the continent, with the highest number of incidents in Uganda, Sudan, Senegal, and DRC. These attacks have been perpetrated by security and law enforcement officers, representatives and supporters of political parties, and members of the […]