Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, a cameraman for Malaysia’s national Bernama TV, was killed in Mogadishu on Friday 2 September when the car he was travelling in was fired on at a city junction, reports say. His colleague Aji Saregar Mazlan, of TV3, was reportedly wounded but is now recovering. The reporters were travelling with the Malaysian […]

The International Press Institute is saddened at the death of a Somali radio journalist who was killed in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu on 4 October.  The militant group Al Shabab has since claimed responsibility for the bombing, which has so far resulted in 100 fatalities. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) reported that […]

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 veteran journalist was found dead in the Philippines province of Davao Oriental on 24 May, according to news reports. The body of Satur Apoyon was discovered floating in the sea off the coast of the town of Governor Generoso, the Philippines News Agency (PNA) reported. The police chief of the municipality of Gov. Generoso […]