Zambian government secretly weaponizes cybercrime law with intrusive add-ons
On April 8, 2025, Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema signed into law the Cyber Crimes Act 2025,updating the 2021 version with rather very intrusive provisions.
The...
Kenya Freedom of Expression
AFEX urges the Kenyan government to help bring justice to assaulted journalists in Nakuru
Over a week has passed since six journalists were teargassed and assaulted by police in Nakuru, Kenya, while covering the arrest of former Kakamega...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
IPC decries threats against journalist; condemns invasion of radio station
For immediate release, February 3, 2025 The Safety and Protection of Journalists (SPJ) hub of the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos - Nigeria is...
Africa
Digital Rights
Amplifying the Resolution on the Protection of Women Against Digital Violence in Africa: Towards Meaningful Actions by States
Two and a half years after the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) adopted the Resolution on the Protection of Women Against Digital Violence in Africa, its implementation remains a pipe dream. With Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) continuing to proliferate across the continent, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) is challenging African governments to use the occasion of International Women’s Day...
South Sudan
Digital Rights
AMDISS Welcomes Lifting of the Ban on Facebook and TikTok in South Sudan
Juba, 28 January 2025—The Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) welcomes the lifting of the blockage of Facebook and TikTok and calls on the government to uphold its constitutional duty to protect press freedom and the right of access to information to serve the public good.
While containing the rapid spread of inflammatory content on social media is significant, AMDISS appeals to the National Communication Authority to expedite...
Issue Highlights
Nigeria
Freedom of Expression Violations
I-CSPJ calls for concerted efforts for the release of kidnapped journalists in northern Nigeria
IPC’s Centre for the Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ), Lagos-Nigeria is calling for a concerted effort towards the immediate release of Chairman of...
Freedom of Expression Violations
Journalists remanded in prison for reporting about alleged corruption
Kampala; Two (2) journalists Dickson Mubiru and Alirabaki Ssengooba were on Thursday, 20th June 2024, remanded to Luzira Prison, after writing a story related...
Mali
Freedom of Expression Violations
Mali silences critics with harsh prison sentences
A court in Mali has handed a two-year prison sentence to Dr Etienne Fakaba Sissoko to crown two months of harassment of the economist...
Country Highlights
GPU Begins Training of 75 Journalists on Ethical Reporting
The Gambia Press Union on Monday began the first of three training workshops to be conducted in February for 75 journalists on ethical reporting,...
Zimbabwe
Freedom of Expression Violations
Police summon journalist
On Monday, the police summoned Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) journalist Blessed Mhlanga to the law enforcement agency’s offices in unclear circumstances.
Mhlanga, the head of...
South Sudan
Freedom of Expression Violations
AMDISS deeply concerned about deteriorating media space in South Sudan
Juba, 29 January 2025—AMDISS expresses deep concerns about the deteriorating media environment in South Sudan and calls on the government to provide answers on...