In December 2024, IPI’s Africa monitoring program recorded at least 10 incidents of threats to press freedom in nine countries across sub-Saharan Africa. These included six incidents of physical, verbal, or online attacks, including the killing of one journalist, in Sudan. Once again, state actors remained the main perpetrators, responsible for nearly all of the incidents […]

The IPI global network strongly condemns the abduction of Tanzanian journalist, commentator, and activist Maria Tsehai by unknown perpetrators in Kenya where she fled seeking safe haven after facing threats from the Tanzanian authorities. On January 12, Tsehai was abducted in Nairobi by unidentified, masked individuals who shoved her into a black van while she […]

This month marks two years since Cameroonian journalist Martinez Zogo was abducted, tortured, and killed. Zogo was known as an outspoken critic of corruption and nepotism in Cameroon’s government through his radio show “Embouteillage”, on Radio Amplitude FM. His body was found on January 22, 2023, just days after his kidnapping on January 17. Several […]

On January 7, 2024, President John Dramani Mahama was sworn into office – days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the killing of journalist Ahmed Suale. In May 2023, Mahama pledged that if elected, he would ensure justice for Ahmed Suale, who was killed on January 16, 2019, in Accra. IPI calls on President Mahama […]