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Famed Ghana undercover journalist demands justice for colleague’s murder

The murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, an investigative reporter at Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s organization Tiger Eye PI, is no closer to being solved. After exposing corruption in African football last year, Ahmed was killed in Accra, Ghana, on January 16th by unidentified gunmen on motorbikes while returning home from work. Over two months later, the investigation […]

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IJ4EU: The ‘militarization of patriotism’ in Central Europe

What forces are behind the rise of right-wing paramilitary groups in Central and Eastern Europe? How are they funded and what are the links between them? How are they shifting understandings of what it means to be patriotic? These are some of the questions that the team of investigative journalists at VSquare sought to answer […]

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Honduras’s enduring press freedom crisis

With a population of just over nine million people, the small central American country of Honduras is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. Over the last decade alone at least 40 have been murdered in connection with their work, according to International Press Institute (IPI) data, making it the […]

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IPI condemns attack on Polish journalist by Venezuelan security forces

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, vehemently condemned an alleged assault by Venezuelan security forces on Tomasz Surdel, correspondent of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza in Caracas. Surdel has been reporting on anti-government protests in Venezuela since the beginning of February. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, Surdel was […]

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