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

It’s official: Eritrea is the world’s most censored country. This is one journalist’s account of what it is like to work there

CPJ has documented a deeply troubling erosion of press freedom in several member states, including attacks on journalists

Maxence Melo Mubyazi is one of five recipients of the 2019 International Press Freedom Award.

2019’s first recorded death of a journalist happened in Accra in mid-January

The Committee to Protect Journalists said 34 of the 53 journalists killed on duty this year around the world were ‘singled out for murder’

Many of the journalists on Malema’s list have already been subjected to a torrent of abuse on social media platforms

Tanzania’s President Magufuli is facing growing international pressure and sanction over the repression of civil society, the media and gay people

There are conflicting accounts of what happened to Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo during their detention in Tanzania

Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said Tanzanian authorities told her Quintal and Mumo were detained because they had contravened their visa regulations

Today more journalists are murdered because of their reporting than die in war zones

‘Journalists will not go down without a fight, even as it becomes ever more difficult to do so’

Angela Quintal and her Committee to Protect Journalists colleague Muthoki Mumo are now free to leave Tanzania

Viktoria Marinova is the third high-profile journalist to be killed in the European Union in the past year, and the fourth since the start of 2017

​On Wednesday, President Kenyatta signed a lengthy new Bill into law, criminalising cybercrimes including fake news, cyberbullying and cyberespionage