To mark Press Freedom Day in Africa on May 11 to 13, IPI and UNESCO co-hosted a roundtable at the second Africa Media Convention in Lusaka, Zambia to discuss the pressures on journalists and challenges of press freedom during elections, as several countries across the continent face key selections in 2023 and 2024. The wave […]

Journalists in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Sudan faced significant pressure, including censorship, arrests, and violence, according to IPI monitoring of press freedom threats and violations for the month of April. In total, IPI documented 60 incidents across 13 countries during this month, with a vast majority of press freedom threats or violations occurring at the hands […]

The IPI global network strongly condemns the closed-door trials of journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who were among the first journalists to report on the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police in September 2022.  Authorities must immediately drop charges against these journalists as well as all imprisoned journalists in […]

Fact-checkers across Europe are exposed to attacks, insults, and threats, and as a form of pressure, so-called SLAPP lawsuits, according to research conducted for Faktograf by Tijana Cvjeticanin. A total of 41 fact-checking media were participating in the survey.   This article is part of the project Decoding the disinformation playbook of populism in Europe, […]