A Nepalese radio journalist was abducted on Wednesday, reportedly over his coverage of a land dispute. Keshav Bohara, a journalist working with Radio Mandavi in Nepal’s Mid-Western Pyuthan district, was abducted by unknown persons. According to IPI member and IPI National Committee General Secretary Taranath Dahal, Bohara had been reporting extensively on a dispute centered […]

An unidentified gunman shot dead a journalist for a banned Rwandan newspaper on Thursday, according to media reports. Jean Leonard Rugambage, an editor for the local-language Umuvugizi newspaper, was shot twice in front of his home on the outskirts of the capital Kigali on Thursday night, a police spokesperson was quoted as saying. Umuvugizi’s editor, […]

Gambian journalist Abdoulie John has received threats from unnamed callers over the past few weeks, he told IPI in a phone interview today. John is a correspondent for the Associated Press news agency and an editor of online news outlet Jollof News. He told IPI he fears the threats are coming from Gambian security operatives. […]

A Filipino journalist was killed on Saturday, bringing the number of media workers killed in the country to three in just five days. Nestor Bedolido, 50, was shot at close range by two men on a motorcycle in Digos City, Davao del Sur, in the south of the Philippines.  News agencies reported that Bedolido was […]