On August 26, Gabon will hold a triple election for president and parliament. The IPI global network calls on authorities in the country to allow journalists to cover the election and its outcome freely and safely.  Gabon has been ruled since 2009 by incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba. He succeeded his father, Omar Bongo, who […]

Press freedom in Zimbabwe continues to face numerous challenges. IPI’s monitoring of press freedom in the country has shown that journalists experience unlawful arrests and detention, online threats and harassment, and restrictions to access information. Recorded incidents have been reported in IPI’s monthly monitoring factsheets (see, for example, the November 2022 factsheet, the December 2022 […]

The IPI global network has published the new resource toolkit “The Foundations of Press Freedom in Africa”. The toolkit is a compilation of key international, regional, and subregional frameworks for the protection of media freedom, the right to access information and the safety of journalists in Africa. This toolkit complements IPI’s press freedom monitoring and […]

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