A journalist working for a radio station in Somalia was hit by stray bullets this week – the second such incident in a month – and the premises of a newspaper were struck by artillery shells during heavy fighting, according to reports. Two journalists who were detained by security forces of the transitional government last […]

The body of a radio journalist was discovered on Tuesday in western Tanzania, bringing to two the number of reporters killed in the East African country in the past six months, and since IPI started tracking journalist deaths in 1997. Issa Ngumba, 45, was found hanging in a forest by Kakonko town, near the western […]

The police in Anambra State, Nigeria, must ensure that journalist Ikechukwu Udendu’s murderers are brought to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said on Friday. Ikechukwu Udendu, who publishes and edits a monthly newspaper, Anambra News, was killed on Saturday morning after he left his home in Ogidi to visit the paper’s printing house in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged authorities to conduct a swift investigation into the death of a journalist in Tongapal, the tribal Sukma district in the South Bastar area of Chhattisgarh, in central India. Nemi Chand Jain, a 45-year-old journalist based in Tongapal, was found dead on Wednesday with his throat slit. His body […]