The IPI global network joined dozens of other press freedom, human rights, and digital rights organizations  from across the globe under the auspices of the #KeepItOn coalition to call on the Sierra Leonean government to keep the internet on during the country’s general elections on June 24.   The letter calls on President Julius Maada Bio […]

H.E. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Office of the President Freetown Sierra Leone Fax: (+ 232-22) 230565 Vienna, 2 August 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the savage beating of For Di People editor Harry Yansaneh, which is said to have caused his […]

Suspects in the murder of a Sierra Leone journalist have been arrested and are now under investigation, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) said in a statement emailed to IPI on Wednesday. Ibrahim Foday, 38, a reporter for Exclusive Newspaper, was stabbed to death on 12 June on the outskirts of Freetown, possibly in […]

  A recently released report by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), “Ebola and Freedom of Expression in West Africa”, covers an overlooked challenge of the Ebola outbreak: the dissemination of accurate and fair information about the disease through the media. As the report notes: “[T]he nature of the disease itself imposes massive restrictions […]