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Voices under Siege: Standing with Kashmir

Just as apartheid could not be normalised by time or silence, neither can the systematic denial of human rights in Kashmir

The funeral of journalists Moaz Abu Taha and Maryam Abu Daqqa, killed in the Israeli army’s bombing of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis on 25 August . Photos: Mahmoud Bassam

Gaza: Where wearing a Press vest is a death sentence

What it means for journalists to bear witness of their colleagues being targeted and killed while they bear witness to the genocide in Gaza

Anas al-Sharif

Editorial: Condemn Israel killing journalists

More than 190 members of the media have now been killed in the war in Gaza, some of them deliberately targeted and assassinated

The tide is slowly turning on uncritical pro-West reporting on issues such as Russia’s war on Ukraine (above) or Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Reporting from the West: A return to reason?

Influential people in parts of the media, civil society and academia in South Africa echoed Western narratives without scrutiny, but now the tide is slowly turning

A vigil remembering journalists killed in Palestine held at St.Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on 28 January 2024. Photo by Leanne Brady
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A movement against silencing: What the war in Palestine has taught us about journalism

More journalists have been killed since 7 October 2023 than during the two World Wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined

Two journalist brothers, Ahmed Abu Soheil and his sister Zahra Abu Soheil, lost their lives as a result of an Israeli army attack, on November 9, 2024 in Gaza City, Gaza. Five people, including women and children, were killed and many others were injured when the Israeli army targeted the Fahd al-Sabah School in Jaffa Street in Gaza City, where displaced Palestinians took shelter. (Photo by Karam Hassan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel ‘silences’ journalists: 188 killed since 7 October 2023

‘Wearing a helmet and a bullet-proof vest with the word “Press” on it no longer guarantees protection, but rather makes you a target’

A rights group has said that since Bola Tinubu became president last year, there have been several attacks on members of the media. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Under Nigeria’s Tinubu, journalists are as unsafe as ever

Since Bola Tinubu became president last year, there have been several attacks on members of the media, rights group says

Women released from Russian captivity within the framework of a large-scale exchange of POWs speak with journalists during the meeting in Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine.(Dmytro Smolyenko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Defend democracy’s defenders

At least eight journalists have been killed since Russia’s war on Ukraine, but the world over journalists are not safe

(John McCann/M&G)

A deadly decade for Somalia’s journalists

On average, five Somali journalists are killed every year, but in the absence of political will to change the situation, the killers are allowed to continue with impunity

Hungary, Tiszabecs: A woman fleeing war and Russian attack from Ukraine with a little girl crosses the border into Hungary in the Hungarian municipality of Tiszabecs. The border between Hungary and Ukraine is about 140 kilometers long. (Marton Monus/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Russia’s repressed independent media is vital to building a post-Putin era

Most Russian journalists have been forced into exile amid a state crackdown. But there is some cause for hope

(Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

What the historic leak of Swiss Banking records reveal

Despite pledges by Credit Suisse to crack down on illegitimate funds, leaked data shows the bank catered to dozens of criminals, dictators, sanctioned parties and political…

MTN has announced that it is exiting Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry in a bid to leave some markets in West Africa. (Supplied)

MTN increases its support for media industry after devastation of Covid-19

The telecommunications giant has donated a further R800 000 to help the independent media stay afloat

In Eritrea, certain topics are known to be out of bounds for journalists. (Reuters/Leonhard Foeger)

Seventy-five African journalists imprisoned for doing their jobs

Across Africa, 12 countries were keeping at least 75 journalists behind bars as of 1 December ― not counting those who were detained and released

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Editorial: Beware the cruel noise of Twitter

Users of social media and journalists need to take care when posting or reporting about children and tragic events

Demonstration for the release of Dawit Isaak, who has been imprisoned in Eritrea, on Sergels torg in Stockholm. Editors-in-chief of Swedish newspapers and representatives of Swedish press organisations participated. 

 (Photo by Hampus Andersson/TT News Agency via AFP)

No justice for Dawit Isaak, the world’s longest detained journalist

Reporters without Borders and others call on higher authorities to review prosecutor’s decision not to investigate the case

Abdishakur Mire

Getting the story in Somalia can be a deadly affair for journalists

Abdallae Ahmed Mumin recalls being shot at and threatened in the line of duty. He escaped with his life, but not all his peers were so lucky.

How the state security agencies approached our reporters

Two stories from reporters who turned down offers to spy for the SSA

Arthur Fraser, as director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), personally signed off on payments of R20-million to the African News Agency (ANA) as part of a covert operation code-named “Project Wave” to co-opt the media during the last years of the Zuma era. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24/Gallo)

Zondo commission: Fraser personally signed off on SSA payments to ANA

Journalists who received payments from the state security agency will be named only once the Zondo commission has notified them in writing

Call for media workers to get Covid vaccine

Most of the coronavirus deaths were in Peru, Brazil, India, Mexico, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Italy and the United States

America’s lessons for African dictators

COMMENT: Trump’s attacks on democracy grab the headlines, but the real story is one of democratic resilience