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  • German court to try man for role in RSF correspondent’s murder in Gambia in 2004

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    An alleged member of the hit squad that murdered the correspondent of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Gambia 18 years ago is due to go on trial in Germany next week. RSF welcomes this decisive step in the quest for justice and hopes the trial will serve as an example for the prosecution of all those who murdered journalists under former dictator Yahya Jammeh.

    The trial of Bai Lowe, a 46-year-old Gambian who was arrested in Hanover in March 2021, will open in the northern city of Celle on 25 April.

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  • Senegalese journalist to be tried for insulting police officer

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    Calling for the withdrawal of all charges against Pape Malick Thiam, a TV reporter due to appear in court tomorrow in Dakar on a charge of insulting a police officer, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges those in charge of the Senegalese security forces to prioritise dialogue with journalists amid a surge in threats and attacks against media personnel.

    A reporter for the privately-owned 7TV channel, Thiam was arrested during an altercation with a policeman at a court in Dakar on 14 April, when he want to cover a hearing wi

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  • Massive wave of arrests in Somaliland : 14 journalists behind bars

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its local partner, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), condemn the continuing detention of 14 journalists, who were arrested yesterday in connection with their coverage of a prison riot in Somaliland, in northwestern Somalia, and call for their unconditional release.

    The arrests, which are without precedent in recent years, began when reporters went to cover a riot in the main prison in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, a self-proclaimed independent republic

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  • Guinea-Bissau radio station owners threatened with jail for not paying licence fee

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the harsh criminal penalties that Guinea-Bissau’s government has threatened to impose on those operating privately-owned radio stations if they have not paid their annual licence fee. The immense majority of these cash-strapped radio stations have stopped broadcasting because of the threat.

    In a decree issued yesterday, the communication ministry warned radio station owners they could face a sentence of up to three years in prison if they are not up to date with their licence fee paym

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  • Niger’s Studio Kalangou is Africa’s first JTI-labeld media outlet

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is pleased to announce that Niamey-based Studio Kalangou is the first African media outlet to be certified according to the standards of the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI), which promotes news reporting that is produced professionally and in accordance with journalistic ethics.

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  • Olivier Dubois journalist held hostage for a year in Mali

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    On the first anniversary of French journalist Olivier Dubois’ abduction in Mali. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malian and French authorities to step up their efforts to obtain his release, and to do everything possible to prevent him spending a second year as a hostage, cut off from the world.

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  • Cameroon : Two journalists and an Equinox TV programme suspended

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a decision by Cameroon’s National Communication Council (CNC) to suspend the head of one of the country’s most outspoken and popular TV channels, one of its star presenters, and one of its leading current affairs programmes for a month. The suspensions are arbitrary and unjustified, and constitute a serious press freedom violation, RSF said.

    The one-month suspensions of Equinoxe TV director Sévérin Tchounkeu, presenter Cédric Noufele and the programme “Droit de Réponse” (Right of Reply) were a

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  • Two Ugandan journalists jailed for “cyber-stalking” president

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of two Ugandan journalists who have been held since a raid on their office on 10 March on charges of “cyber-stalking” President Yoweri Museveni and “offensive communication.” Seven colleagues were also arrested in the same raid but have since been released.

    The two journalists still held are Norman Tumuhimbise, the executive director of Alternative Digitalk TV, an online TV channel critical of the government, and Farida Bikobere,

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  • Mali bans local broadcasts by leading French radio and TV news outlets

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    The announcement by Mali’s military junta that it plans to suspend local radio and TV news broadcasts by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and France 24 for reporting abuses by the Malian army and its Russian mercenary allies constitutes an attack on press freedom that will hurt the Malian public and all journalists and media in Mali, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says.

    Journalists in Mali have been warned.

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  • After new Mali hostage video, RSF urges renewed efforts to get him freed

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    Following the past weekend’s circulation of a new undated video of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist held hostage in Mali for the past 11 months, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the French and Malian authorities to redouble efforts to obtain his release.

    A reassuring proof of life, the video’s appearance on social media came just one week after RSF organised the projection of a h

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  • Three Cabo Verde journalists could be jailed for covering case involving minister

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Cabo Verde to drop proceedings against three journalists who could be facing up to two years in prison for allegedly violating the confidentiality of an investigation into the current interior minister’s possible role in a murder. These proceedings are obstructing coverage of the case and could prevent the truth emerging, RSF says.

    Santiago Magazine editor Herminio Silves was formally accused by a prosecutor on 26 January in connection with the

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  • National convention’s decisions could herald new era for journalists in DRC

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the main conclusions of a five-day “national convention on communication and the media” in the Democratic Republic of Congo and urges the authorities to lose no time in implementing the proposed major reforms, which RSF and its Congolese partner, Journalist in Danger (JED), have been recommending for years.

    If the convention held in Kinshasa from 25 to 29 January quickly leads to action, it will mark a turning point in the history of the media in the DRC.

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  • Ghana sees disturbing surge in press freedom violations

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an end to imprisonment for press offences in Ghana, where three journalists have been detained on various grounds since the start of February, and for a full investigation into a case of police violence two weeks ago against a journalist who is still hospitalised.

    “In a country where arrests of journalists had become an exception, these new cases of detention and violence are very disturbing,” said Sadibou Marong, the director of RSF’s West Africa bureau.

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  • Radio reporter killed in southern Chad village massacre

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chadian authorities to shed all possible light on last week’s massacre in southern Chad in which a radio reporter was killed while covering an attack by local herders on a village of farmers.

    The journalist, Evariste Djaï-Loramadji, provided his Christian community radio station, Radio Lotiko, with a brief live report at 4:39 p.m.

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  • Shots fired at Bissau journalist’s home one day after armed attack on his radio station

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to learn that shots were fired at the home of one of Capital FM’s journalists just 24 hours after masked gunmen attacked this Bissau-based opposition radio station, injuring several journalists. Guinea-Bissau’s authorities must react at once in order to protect this station’s personnel, RSF says.

    Bullet impacts can be seen on the outside of journalist Rui Landim’s home after individuals armed with Kalashnikovs

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  • RSF seeks urgent UN action as Cameroonian journalist turns 72 in prison

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    As Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké “celebrates” his 72nd birthday today in so-called “preventive” detention, in which he has now spent more than 2,000 days, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its appeal to the UN to do everything possible to obtain his release given his extremely fragile state of health and urgent need of treatment.

    As well as spending his birthday like most days, in the main prison in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, Vamoulké is also due to spend part of it at the Special Criminal Court (TCS) for his 99th appeara

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  • Seven injured, one seriously, in armed attack on Bissau radio station

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by an attack by masked gunmen on Capital FM, a radio station in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, in which seven people including three of its journalists were injured. The authorities must quickly identify those responsible, RSF says.

    One of the journalists, Maimuna Bari, is still in a serious condition in Bissau’s military hospital with spine and rib injuries that she sustained during the

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  • Mali expels visiting French reporter

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    A week after announcing it will become harder for foreign reporters to obtain press accreditation, the Malian authorities have expelled a French journalist within 24 hours of his arrival in the country. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unprecedented expulsion and the use of an administrative pretext to prevent this journalist from working.

    Benjamin Roger, a reporter who has been covering the Sahel region for the past decade, arrived in Bamako, the Malian capital, late on the night 6 February, was arrested at his hote

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  • Malian journalist who disappeared six years ago is very likely dead, RSF says

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    An investigation by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has established that Birama Touré, a Malian journalist who disappeared six years ago, very probably died as a result of being tortured while secretly held by Mali’s intelligence agency. RSF urges the Malian justice system to keep working tirelessly to shed light on this case.

    After registering his upcoming marriage at Bamako’s city hall and spending the afternoon with his family, Touré, set off for home on his motorcycle on the night of 29 January 2016.

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  • After coup, Burkina Faso’s junta must let journalists work, says RSF

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    After Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba, the head of the military junta now governing Burkina Faso, failed to give any formal undertaking to protect press freedom in an address to the nation yesterday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the military to allow journalists to work freely and safely. A journalist was injured and two others were briefly detained in the mutinies that led to the coup d’état four days ago.

    The coup began when hooded soldiers seized control of Radio Télévisio

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  • Ailing reporter held without trial for nearly three months in central Nigeria

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the persecution of Luka Binniyat, a journalist who has been detained in central Nigeria’s Kaduna state for more than 80 days pending a trial that keeps on being postponed although his health is worsening by the day.

    A reporter for Epoch Times, a conservative international daily based in the United States, Binniyat has been held on a cyber-crime charge ever since his arrest on 4 November in connection wi

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  • Woman reporter beaten by police while covering protest in DRC

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked to learn that a woman reporter was badly beaten by police and detained for several hours when she covered a protest in a provincial town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The police officers responsible must be immediately identified and punished, RSF says.

    Bondeko community radio reporter Justine Lifombi had injuries to her face and was barefoot when finally released from the police station in Isangi, a town in the north-central provinc

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  • Amadou Vamoulké completes 2,000 days in prison in Cameroon without being convicted

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    Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké, the septuagenarian former head of the national radio and TV broadcaster, has just completed his 2,000th day in detention without being convicted on any charge. Cameroon’s disgraceful treatment of Vamoulké falls far below even the most basic standards of justice and human dignity, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

    Adjourned 90 times, his trial is the longest to have been held as part of the anti-corruption drive known as Operation Sparrowhawk that the Cameroonian authorities launched in 2006.

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  • Sadibou Marong takes over as director of RSF’s West Africa bureau

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is pleased to announce that Sadibou Marong, a Senegalese journalist who had been working for Amnesty International since 2014, is taking over this week as the director of RSF’s Dakar-based West Africa bureau.

    Marong is tasked with developing the activities of the bureau, which was created in 2019, and with reinforcing RSF’s impact in the region.

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  • Nigerian intelligence agency raids news website

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by a Nigerian intelligence agency’s harassment of an Abuja-based news website with the aim of identifying its source for a leaked memo questioning the head of the agency’s qualifications for the job.

    Is the director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Nigeria’s foreign intelligence service, trying to eliminate this respected investigative news outlet in order to save his skin?

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  • Two Togolese journalists freed but subjected to absurd judicial controls

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Togo’s authorities to rescind the extremely strict and unjustified judicial controls placed on two newspaper editors as a condition for their release on 31 December after three weeks in prison in the capital, Lomé, on charges of defaming and insulting two government ministers.

    L’Alternative editor Ferdinand Ayité and Fraternité editor Joël Egah have had to surrender their passports, they cannot leave Togo, they must visit the judge in charge o

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  • Suspended jail terms for journalists in Niger who published report on corruption

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the suspended prison sentences passed yesterday on two Nigerien journalists who published an international report about drug trafficking and corruption in Niger. These totally unjustified sentences send a shocking signal about the state of justice and the fight against corruption in this country, RSF says.

    In a terrible start to the year for journalists in Niger, L’Événement news website editor Moussa Aksar was given a two-month suspended jail sentence and freelance reporter

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  • Nigerian journalist to appear before judge after being held arbitrarily for two months

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    On the eve of his appearance before a judge tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the prolonged arbitrary detention of Luka Binniyat, a journalist who is charged with cyber-crime and false information in his coverage of massacres in Kaduna state, in northern Nigeria.

    A reporter for The Epoch Times, a newspaper based in the United States, Binniyat has been held ever since his arrest on 4 November in connection with an

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  • L’Alternative newspaper targeted by Togo’s government

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    After repeatedly targeting the biweekly newspaper L’Alternative in recent years with administrative sanctions, judicial proceedings and surveillance, Togo’s authorities have finally jailed its editor, Ferdinand Ayité.

    Attempts have often been made to intimidate Ayité during his 20 or so years as a journalist but this is the first time he has found himself in a cell.

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  • Cameroonian newspaper editor finally acquitted, released after 16 months

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    Emmanuel Mbombog Mbog Matip, a Cameroonian newspaper editor who was detained in a completely arbitrary manner for 16 months and had to spend a further week in prison after his acquittal, has finally been freed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes his release but fears further proceedings against this journalist.

    The editor of the newspaper Climat Social, Matip was arrested by six soldiers at his home on 17 August 2020, when he was investigating two stories, one about an alleged coup plot, the othe

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