H.E. Thabo Mbeki President of South Africa The Presidency Union Buildings, West Wing Government Avenue Pretoria 0001 Republic of South Africa Fax: (+ 2712) 323 82 46 / 2573 Vienna, 14 December 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 110 countries, invites […]

H.E. Ato Meles Zenawi Prime Minister Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia P.O. Box 1031 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Fax: +251 1 552 020 Vienna, 14 December 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 110 countries, is writing to express its dismay at the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the death of IPI member Gebran Tueni, editor and general manager of the Beirut independent daily An-Nahar. A prominent journalist and an opposition Member of Parliament, Tueni was killed along with three others on 12 December in an […]

According to information provided to IPI, on 8 December, Trevor Ncube, publisher of the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper, as well as Zimbabwe’s The Standard and Zimbabwean Independent newspapers, had his passport confiscated by a plainclothes member of the Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). Speaking about the incident, Ncube said that he had already […]