Two journalists working for a French television station were detained in the Nigerian city of Jos by members of the military, interrogated, and eventually ordered to leave Plateau State, the Associated Press reported today. TFI journalist Jeremie Drieu and his local colleague Ahmad Salkida were in Jos to report on the recent unrest there. They […]

This spring, everyone who knew of Adeola Akinremi’s plans to travel to northeast Nigeria to report on the tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram told him to be extremely careful. Some urged him not to go at all. But Akinremi, features editor of the independent daily ThisDay, was set on telling the victims’ stories […]

Paris-based watchdog group Reporters Without Borders today announced that four journalists imprisoned in Eritrea have died in custody. IPI expressed deep sorrow over the news and called on the Eritrean government to release those journalists still in custody, many of whom have been imprisoned for over ten years. Reporters Without Borders confirmed through sources that […]

A prominent local editor, newspaper owner and political organiser was gunned down today on the resort island of Phuket by unknown assailants on a motorbike in what appears to have been a targeted killing. According to local media, Wisut Tangwitthayaporn, owner of the Inside Phuket newspaper and editor of Phuket E-news, was driving with his […]