Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Journalists hospitalized after bomb attack in Somalia

A police school located in the northern Mogadishu district of Abdiasis was bombed on Tuesday during a press conference held by Al Shabab, a Somali Islamist insurgent group linked to Al Qaeda. Eight journalists were wounded, four of whom were admitted to Medina Hospital, according to Omar Faruk Osman, the Secretary General of the National […]

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Award-winning Somali journalist killed in car bomb

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the Somali government to investigate the death of award-winning radio journalist Yusuf Ahmed Abukar, who was killed by a car bomb on Saturday. The 27-year-old reporter was driving through Mogadishu when a bomb planted underneath the front seat of his car exploded at 7:40 a.m., according to […]

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Two journalists killed in Guinea while covering Ebola outbreak

The International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened by news of the death of two journalists in the West African nation of Guinea.  According to the BBC, the journalists’ bodies were found in a septic tank along with five other bodies believed to be health workers. The journalists had disappeared last Tuesday, along with three doctors, […]

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IPI urges stepped-up probe into death of Filipina journalist

The International Press Institute today urged Philippine authorities to step up their investigation into the killing of a veteran newspaper journalist who was shot multiple times in an attack at her home last week. Rubylita Garcia, who had worked for the daily Remate for 20 years, was shot in front of her son and 10-year-old […]

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