The International Press Institute (IPI) will conduct a fact-finding mission to Ethiopia from 16-19 November 2009. IPI Director David Dadge will meet with representatives from a broad spectrum of the media, as well as government officials to discuss challenges to the media in the East African country. IPI has been involved in campaigning for a […]

Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a case for the repeal of criminal and seditious libel brought by the country’s national journalists’ association in February 2008, ruling that the provisions are in line with the country’s 1991 constitution and that “journalists are under no imminent threat,” IPI member Ibrahim Bah, Executive Director of […]

Simon Abou Fadel, the owner of Alkalima online newspaper and writer with Al-Diyar newspaper, has been charged with “insulting” the president after criticising his role in months-long efforts to create a national unity cabinet – which was formed on Monday – in a show aired by private broadcaster MTV, on Wednesday (4 November). Lebanon’s Daily […]

The editor-in-chief of Zambian daily the Post, and International Press Institute (IPI) member, Fred M’membe, appeared in court in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Monday on contempt charges brought after the newspaper published an op-ed in August 2009 about an ongoing ‘obscenity’ case against the Post editor Chansa Kabwela. In the piece, entitled “The Chansa Kabwela case: a […]