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AMDISS commends the removal of problematic provisions of National Security Act
Juba, 7th, September 2023---Association for Media Development In South Sudan (AMDISS) commends members of the Reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly for deleting Articles 54...
Democratic Republic Of Congo Freedom of Expression Violations
DRC: Journalist fears for his life after being detained and tortured by M23 rebels
Hererimana Serushago, a journalist working for the community radio station "La Voix de Mikeno" in Bunagana, Rutshuru territory, North Kivu province, lives in fear...
Democratic Republic Of Congo Freedom of Expression Violations
DRC: Community Radio Attacked
The community radio station Voix de Mikeno, broadcasting in Bunagana (100 km from the town of Goma, Rutshuru territory), was ransacked by rebel soldiers...
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11 journalists killed in Africa in less than nine months, AFEX demands a tough response from governments to end the impunity
For the past 273 days spanning January-September 2021, eleven journalists have been killed across sub-Sahara Africa in an orgy of repression that has scores...
Democratic Republic Of Congo Freedom of Expression Violations
JED demands official apology from police chief after a brutal attack on journalist during an opposition demonstration
Journalist en Danger (JED) strongly condemns the assault perpetrated by security forces on the correspondent of the Radio France Internationale in Kinshasa, capital of...
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Press Freedom Situation in Africa- April- June 2021
Journalists killed, respectively in DRC, Somalia and Nigeria, Burkina Faso, including a social media activist in Ghana during the period of April-June 2021. This...
Democratic Republic Of Congo
DRC: Journalist Arrested for Social Media Post on Army
Louis France Kuzikesa, a journalist of CML13 TV, a television channel broadcasting in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was...
Democratic Republic Of Congo Freedom of Expression Violations
DRC: Journaliste en Danger Condemns Murder of Journalist
Journaliste en Danger (JED) is deeply shocked by the murder, on Sunday 9 May 2021 at around 11 pm, of a journalist by two...
Chad Digital Rights
Authorities in Chad Must Refrain from Repetitive Internet Disruptions during Elections
Ahead of the Presidential elections campaigning in Chad, the authorities disrupted the internet on February 28, 2021, and attempted to restrict access to social...
Democratic Republic Of Congo Freedom of Expression Violations
DRC: Journalist Detained by the Public Prosecutor’s Office
Journalist in Danger (JED) demands the immediate and unconditional release of the journalist who has been detained for four days in Mbandaka, the capital...
Democratic Republic Of Congo Freedom of Expression Violations
DRC: JED Demands Provisional Release of Journalist Detained for 48 Hours on Defamation Charges
Journalist en danger (JED) expresses its sadness over the arrest, on Wednesday September 9, 2020, by the office of the general prosecutor attached to...
Democratic Republic Of Congo Freedom of Expression Violations
DRC: Provincial Governor Summoned for Torture and Injury Against Journalists
Following a legal action initiated by Journalist in Danger (JED) through a Law Firm of Lodja, the Governor of the province of Sankuru (Center...