The International Press Institute is saddened at the death of a Somali radio journalist who was killed in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu on 4 October.  The militant group Al Shabab has since claimed responsibility for the bombing, which has so far resulted in 100 fatalities. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) reported that […]

Suspects in the murder of a Sierra Leone journalist have been arrested and are now under investigation, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) said in a statement emailed to IPI on Wednesday. Ibrahim Foday, 38, a reporter for Exclusive Newspaper, was stabbed to death on 12 June on the outskirts of Freetown, possibly in […]

A veteran journalist was found dead in the Philippines province of Davao Oriental on 24 May, according to news reports. The body of Satur Apoyon was discovered floating in the sea off the coast of the town of Governor Generoso, the Philippines News Agency (PNA) reported. The police chief of the municipality of Gov. Generoso […]

A journalist was killed on Thursday morning in The Philippines, while she was walking to a bus stop near her home in Malabon city, one of the municipalities that make up Metro Manila. Maria Len Flores-Somera, host of a public service program on DZME, is the second journalist murdered this year in The Philipines and […]