In October 2023, IPI documented 29 threats to press freedom in 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The category of “physical, verbal, and online attacks” registered the highest number of threats. The violations and threats in October involved 46 male and 12 female journalists. State actors remain the main perpetrators, responsible for more than 82% of […]

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Stay up to date with IPI’s work on media innovation and sustainability by subscribing to our newsletter The Outlook. Sign up here. “When you are a country in conflict, you tend to become very insularized. We wanted to do something against that,” the founder and editor-in-chief of the Yerevan-based weekly magazine EVN Report, Maria Titizian, […]

The IPI global network welcomes the recent decision by the ECOWAS Court of Justice which declared some provisions of the Nigeria broadcasting regulations as incompatible with the freedom of expression guarantees in the  African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). In a judgment delivered on October 23, 2023, the Court ruled that Articles 3(1)(1) […]