Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Wednesday 22 July warned journalists against tarnishing Gambia’s image, in a statement to state-owned GRTS television. “Any journalist who thinks that he or she can write whatever he or she wants, and go free, is making a big mistake”, Jammeh declared. “If anybody is caught, he will be severely dealt […]

On 13 July, Adrien Morin, a journalist interning with France’s Le Monde newspaper was arrested while covering a demonstration in the Paris suburb of Montreuil and held for some nine hours, overnight. The demonstrators were protesting against police violence, after five people were injured a day earlier when police forcibly evacuated a building occupied by […]

Press freedom continues to deteriorate in Yemen with the sentencing of Yemeni journalist Anis Mansour to 14 months in prison for “separatism and attacking national unity,” according to the Yemen Times newspaper on Sunday, and the opening of a Press and Publications Court to rule on press offences. Mansour, a journalist for the now suspended […]

In Somaliland, two journalists working for Radio Horyaal were arrested on 13 July, for allegedly inciting clan violence, and local independent Horn Cable TV (HCTV) has been banned. The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned that this signals a media crackdown in the autonomous region of Somalia, in the run-up to presidential elections in September. […]