The International Press Institute (IPI) today noted improvements in the security situation of Kenyan and international journalists covering the Kenyan elections on Monday, Mar. 4, 2013, and their aftermath. Concerns for media workers had mounted in the run-up to the elections. Alarming reports by the Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA) said that a number of journalists […]

Following is the text of a letter addressed by IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie to the media and state representatives of Kenya on the occasion of the national elections on March 4, 2013 Today Kenyans go to the polls to elect a new president, and in the event that no candidate has an absolute […]

International Press Institute (IPI) Director David Dadge on Friday addressed the Pan Africa Media Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of a panel entitled “Media Freedom: A Balance Sheet.” In his speech – “Learning to Let Go: How the Refusal of African Presidents and Political Parties to Relinquish Power Harms Media Freedom” – Dadge told […]

Kenya’s Nation Media Group will resist pressure from both the Ethiopian and Kenyan Governments, and complete the broadcast of a four-part Nation Television (NTV) investigative documentary on rebel fighters in Ethiopia, sources inside the news organisation have told the International Press Institute (IPI). “Inside Rebel Territory: Rag-Tag Fighters of the Oromo Liberation Front,” a four-part […]