With the abuse of cybercrime laws to target journalists on the rise globally, states must ensure that a planned U.N. cybercrime treaty does not undermine freedom of expression, a panel of experts said at the 2023 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival. Cybercrime laws are increasingly being used to criminalize a wide scope of […]

Journalists across Africa continued to bring the public critical news and information about elections, political protests, and conflict, while also facing risks to their safety and security, as IPI’s monitoring of press freedom violations for the month of March showed.  According to IPI data on press freedom threats and violations, 103 incidents were identified across […]

Nigeria and DRC continue to have some of the highest number of press freedom threats and violations in Africa, according to IPI’s monitoring data for the month of February. This has been noted in previous IPI press freedom monitoring reports in the region, including in our November and December 2022 factsheets.  A total of 61 […]

The IPI global network expresses concern after more than three dozen attacks on journalists were reported in the context of Nigeria’s recent presidential, legislative, and governorship elections, and calls on the Nigerian authorities to hold those responsible to account. Nigeria held presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25 and governorship and House of Assembly […]