The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged authorities in South Sudan to apprehend those behind an ambush attack last weekend on the two-car convoy of a local official that left five local journalists dead. Unidentified heavily-armed men attacked the convoy of County Commissioner Maradom James Benjamin on Sunday while it travelled in western Bahr al-Ghazal […]

The International Press institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of a South Sudanese journalist whose body was found dumped at a farm last week some three months after he was kidnapped by armed men. Six men reportedly abducted veteran journalist Isaac Vuni, former deputy director of South Sudan’s National Ministry of Information, and his brother […]

The murder of yet another journalist in Pakistan this week because of his journalistic work once again raises the issue of journalists’ safety and the importance of ending the impunity both in that country and worldwide. Senior journalist Zaman Mehsud of Tank District in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was gunned down on Tuesday, one […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged the Indian government to conduct a full probe into Saturday’s mysterious death of a journalist investigating a high-profile scandal involving state-run tests, and to take steps to protect journalists who cover corruption. Akshay Singh, 38, was the third journalist who had been investigating corruption to die in India […]