The Venezuelan National Assembly will on Thursday vote on a new law that could further damage press freedom in the country, the International Press Institute (IPI) warns. The “Draft Law on Education” (Proyecto de Ley Orgánico de Educación), which would replace the current law of 1980, makes the teaching of a “critical and responsible interpretation […]

Two journalists working for the Associated Press (AP) were seriously wounded on Wednesday in a roadside bombing in Eastern Kandahar, Afghanistan, according to news reports. Photographer Emilio Morenatti and videographer Andi Jatmiko were travelling with U.S. forces when their vehicle was hit by the bomb. Both journalists were taken to a military hospital in Kandahar. […]

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 […]

The International Press Institute is concerned at reports that two journalists from Radio Horyaal in Somaliland have been fined and narrowly avoided a six-month prison sentence for “disseminating information that resulted in loss of life and property.” Somaliland’s Hargeisa Regional Court on Sunday reportedly sentenced the two journalists, Mohamed Osman Mire and Ahmed Suleyman Dhuhul, […]