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  • Popular news site suspended arbitrarily in Ethiopia

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the sudden withdrawal of a popular news website’s licence yesterday in Ethiopia – the latest escalation in a crackdown on press freedom in which many journalists have been arrested or deported. The crackdown is without precedent since Abiy Ahmed became prime minister and marks the end of the honeymoon between Abiy and the media.

    Yesterday’s latest victim was Addis Standard, a news website that is visited by several million peo

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  • Eswatini: Two journalists tortured by security forces

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    Amid pro-democracy demonstrations in the kingdom over the past two weeks, journalists for a South African media organisation were arrested, detained and tortured by members of security forces. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly condemns these repressive methods and expresses grave concern for journalists and media organisations working in the country.

    Journalists Magnificent Mndebele of South Africa and Cebelihle Mbuyisa of Eswatini suffered torture by suffocation at the hands of security fo

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  • Former Malian president’s son should be questioned about missing journalist

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    An investigation by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) into Malian journalist Birama Touré’s disappearance in 2016 points to the involvement of Karim Keïta, the son of former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, who was ousted in a coup a year ago. Interpol wants to talk to him.

    A reporter for the Malian investigative newspaper Le Sphinx, Touré went missing on the evening of 29 January 2016 and, according to the information obtained by RSF, is

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  • TV reporter attacked in DRC during street interviews about Covid restrictions

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins its partner organisation Journalist in Danger (JED) in the Democratic Republic of Congo in condemning an attack by ruling party activists on a TV journalist who was doing street interviews about the latest measures to combat the pandemic. This violence must be investigated and those responsible punished, RSF says.

    Dosta Lutula, the presenter of a programme on privately-owned Canal Kin Télévision in the capital, Kinshasa, ended up with blood streaming down his face on 23 June when he tried to in

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  • Cameroonian logging firm uses multiple lawsuits to harass reporter

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns logging company FIPCAM’s judicial harassment of Cameroonian journalist Nestor Nga Etoga for the past five years after he investigated some of its practices. RSF calls on the company and Cameroon’s justice system to put a stop to the use of legal proceedings to try to silence this journalist.

    Etoga, who is the editor of the weekly Le Renard, senior editor at the Les Scoops d’Afrique website and a reporter for other news sites, has

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  • Smear campaign targets prize-winning reporter in Madagascar

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the concerted effort under way in Madagascar for the past week to smear French freelance journalist Gaëlle Borgia after she embarrassed the government by posting a video on Facebook illustrating the desperation to which a major famine has driven some Madagascans.

    Based in Madagascar for more than ten years, reporting for France 24, TV5 Monde and AFP, Gaëlle Borgia won a

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  • DRC soldiers must not be able to attack journalists with impunity, RSF says

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to quickly identify and punish the soldiers who broke into a journalist’s home this week in one of the two northeastern provinces where a state of siege in effect for the past six weeks is making journalism extremely difficult.

    Freelance reporter Daniel Michombero told RSF that he was woken from his sleep on the night of 22 June by seven masked men in the uniforms of members of the DR

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  • Burkina Faso’s media group’s five-day suspension is too harsh, RSF says

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    A decision by Burkina Faso’s Higher Council for Communication (CSC) to suspend the Omega media group’s radio and TV programmes for five days, from 8 to 13 June, for alleged errors in its coverage of a terrorist attack is disproportionate, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says.

    The privately-owned group’s TV channel and two radio stations are currently broadcasting nothing but music as a result of the five-day

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  • Burkinabe legislative threat to press freedom must be declared unconstitutional

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Burkina Faso’s Constitutional Council to strike down a newly passed law containing amendments to the criminal code that would criminalize certain kinds of online content, including fake news and terrorism reporting that could have negative consequences.

    Adopted by Burkina Faso’s national assembly on 21 June, the law provides for harsh penalties for fake news and for “reporting on terrorism or on the security forces whose consequences could comprom

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  • Twitter blocked, journalism threatened in Nigeria

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the Nigeria government’s decision to suspend Twitter throughout the country after the social media platform deleted one of the president’s tweets, and by the attacks and threats it poses to the media according to journalists interviewed by RSF.

    Nigerian media outlets are shocked by Twitter’s suspension for an indefinite period that the government announced on 4 June.

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  • Reporters Without Borders rallies former hostages in Paris, following the kidnapping of journalist Olivier Dubois.

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    Two months to the day after the French journalist was seized in Mali, RSF held a support demonstration in Paris while another one was organised in Bamako. The 8 June rallies were a message of hope for Dubois. Those present included members of the media organisations he works for, and many ex-hostage journalists who came to show their solidarity.

    Dubois was kidnapped on 8 April while on a reporting trip in Gao, in northern Mali. He remains in the hands of an armed group.

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  • Time is pressing, 20 years after Burkinabe journalist’s murder

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the progress in the investigation into the murder of Norbert Zongo, a leading Burkinabe journalist whose body was found 20 years ago tomorrow, but calls on the authorities in France and Burkina Faso to accelerate the judicial proceedings so that those responsible can be finally brought to trial.

    A major step forward was taken on 5 December when an appeal court in Paris

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  • Uganda urged to free two journalist held since last week on libel charges

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of two Ugandan journalists, Pidson Kareire, the founder of the respected investigative news website Drone Media, and Darious Magara, a reporter for East African Watch, who were jailed on criminal libel charges last week without their bail applications being heard.

    The two journalists have been charged in connection with stories they wrote last October and November about the reported failure of a construction company, Dott Services Ltd, t

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  • Case against Amadou Vamoulké baseless, French lawyers tell Cameroon court

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    Two French lawyers presented evidence to a court in Cameroon yesterday which they said showed the charges against Amadou Vamoulké, the jailed former head of the state-owned national radio and TV broadcaster CRTV, were unfounded and should be dropped.

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to end the judicial conspiracy against the 71-year-old journalist and release him. 

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  • RSF condemns NYT reporter’s unprecedented expulsion from Ethiopia

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by Ethiopia’s expulsion of Simon Marks, an Addis Ababa-based reporter for the New York Times and Bloomberg News, just weeks after it suspended his accreditation. The Ethiopian authorities must stop constantly intimidating journalists, RSF said.

    This is the first time in years that Ethiopia has expelled a foreign reporter.

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  • Mauritanian reporter held for two days over Facebook post

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a Mauritanian reporter’s arrest for 48 hours over nothing more than a Facebook post questioning government spending. The authorities must safeguard press freedom in Mauritania, RSF said.

    Abdellahi Mohamed Ould Atigha, the editor of the independent newspaper Al Hoora, was suddenly

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  • Guinean journalist finally freed after being held for nearly three months

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes Guinean journalist Amadou Diouldé Diallo’s release today after nearly three months in prison on a charge of insulting President Alpha Condé although Guinea has decriminalised press offences. The Guinean authorities must stop detaining journalists arbitrarily, RSF said.

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  • Cameroonian journalist Paul Chouta sentenced and fined in defamation case

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    Journalist Paul Chouta has been sentenced to 23 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay several million CFA francs in fines and damages after being held for two years awaiting a trial verdict in Cameroon. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores this excessive and unjustified penalty which is a serious attack on press freedom.

    The judge’s verdict was finally issued yesterday after being postponed 27 times.

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  • Ethiopia arbitrarily suspends New York Times reporter’s accreditation

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Ethiopian authorities to reinstate the press accreditation of Simon Marks, an Addis Ababa-based reporter for the New York Times and Bloomberg News, and to allow journalists to work freely.

    After several semi-official warnings in preceding months, Simon Marks was notified on his return from reporting in the war-torn northern Tigray region in March

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  • RSF helps coordinate support for French journalist kidnapped in Mali

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announces the creation of a group to coordinate support for Olivier Dubois, a French freelance journalist who was abducted in Gao, in northeastern Mali, on 8 April. The group includes friends and colleagues of Dubois, the main French media outlets for which he works, other major media outlets, and journalists who have themselves been held hostage in the past.

    The creation of this group of 11 individuals and entities at RSF’s initiative comes 12 days after the release of a video confirming Olivier Dubois’s

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  • The conviction of Niger newspaper editor Moussa Aksar is an attack on investigative journalism

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the defamation verdict today against investigative journalist Moussa Aksar, author of an investigation into one of the most serious political and financial scandals in Niger’s history.

    Moussa Aksar, editor of the newspaper L’Evénement, was fined 2

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  • French reporter says he has been kidnapped in northeastern Mali

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malian and French authorities to do everything possible to obtain the release of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who says he has been kidnapped by an Islamist armed group in Mali.

    In a 21-second video that was released today, Olivier Dubois says he was kidnapped by t

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  • Op-ed urges Benin to end Digital Law threat to journalism

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is one of the signatories of an op-ed piece published in Benin on World Press Freedom Day calling for an overhaul of the country’s Digital Law, which has been used to throttle free speech and press freedom.

    Headlined “Digital Law, Trojan horse for press freedom in Benin?” and co-signed by three newspapers, Nord Sud Quotidien, L’Inter and Ecofin, the op-ed says that, although initi

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  • Congo celebrates World Press Freedom Day by sentencing a journalist to six months in prison

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    Illegally incarcerated for the past three months, an editor has been sentenced to spend three more months in prison for simple defamation. Reporters Without Borders condemns this unjust action, which is an affront to all Congolese journalists.

    The sentence handed down to Raymond Malonga shows the level of respect for law and press

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  • RSF urges Madagascar to let journalists cover Covid-19 freely

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Madagascar not to suppress media coverage of a second wave of coronavirus cases after they suspended nine radio and TV programmes last week and made several broadcasters give a written undertaking not to cause trouble in order to get their programmes back on the air.

    The nine programmes were suspended under a state of e

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  • Two Spanish journalists killed in eastern Burkina Faso

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that two Spanish journalists were killed yesterday in an armed attack in eastern Burkina Faso. This latest tragedy for journalism is another reminder of the considerable risks involved in reporting in Africa’s Sahel region, RSF said.

    War reporter David Beriain and cameraman Roberto Fraile were killed when the government convoy they were accompanying was attacked yesterday morning on the road leadi

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  • Cameroonian reporter jailed since August, abandoned by justice system

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of Emmanuel Mbombog Mbog Matip, a journalist who has been imprisoned without trial in Cameroon since last August and who is being held in an entirely illegal manner.

    The editor of the newspaper Climat Social and president of the National League for the Defence of the Rights of Disadvantaged Persons, Emmanuel Mbombog Mbog Ma

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  • Well-known Cameroon reporter held for nearly two years

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call for the release of Paul Chouta, a well-known Cameroonian journalist and whistleblower who has been held arbitrarily for nearly two years and has been subjected to an absurdly drawn-out trial on a charge of defamation and spreading fake news. After 26 hearings, the trial’s penultimate stage is finally scheduled for 6 May.

    A reporter for the Cameroun Web media outlet, Paul Chouta has been detained since 28 May 2019 as a result of a complaint brought by t

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  • Guinean journalist’s continuing detention is “incomprehensible,” RSF says

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of Guinean journalist Amadou Diouldé Diallo and is amazed that he is still being held after more than six weeks of arbitrary detention although the only punishment requested by the prosecution at a trial hearing on 13 April was a fine.

    A reporter for state-owned radio and TV broadcaster RTG who has been held ever since his arr

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  • Guinea : RSF and AIPS call for release of two imprisoned journalists

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    The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) and the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) are joining forces to call for the immediate release of journalist Amadou Diouldé Diallo, one of the doyens of the Guinean press, who is being jailed in Conakry, and of sports journalist Ibrahima Sadio Bah. They are simply demanding that the law decriminalising press offences in Guinea be respected.

    Amadou Diouldé Diallo was arrested on February 27th in Conakry.

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