Read in English Das International Press Institute (Internationales Presseinstitut, IPI) kündigte heute an, dass es seinen jährlichen Weltkongress 2018 vom 21. bis 23. Juni in der nigerianischen Hauptstadt Abuja abhalten wird. Unter dem Motto “Warum guter Journalismus entscheidend ist” (“Why Good Journalism Matters”) wird der Weltkongress die unverzichtbare Rolle von Qualitätsmedien beim Aufbau starker Gesellschaften bekräftigen. […]

Efforts by the governments and conflicts have become a major obstacle in reporting on COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Journalists are struggling to get accurate information from their governments, which are attempting to control the public narrative about the unprecedented health crisis, according to panellists who participated in a webinar  jointly organized by the International Press […]

The assistant news editor of Nigerian daily The Guardian, Bayo Ohu, was shot dead at home by a group of up to five gunmen on Sunday morning as he was preparing to go to a church service. The killers fired at least eight bullets into him, after he opened the door to them, news reports […]

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 […]