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    Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 16, 2018. A recent thawing of relations between the two countries did not lead to improved conditions for the media in Eritrea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.
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    How Uganda is using old and new laws to block activists on social media

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    The statue of founding president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in Tanzania’s political capital Dodoma. Credit: WikiCommons.
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    Fresh vigilance is needed to protect media freedom across Africa

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    A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.
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    Sphelele Mjadu, Unilever Personal Care Senior Public Relations Manager for Africa and Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, in the UN Women-Dove masterclass panel at the Loeries. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.
    #Loeries2019: Our responsibility of better representation in advertising, media

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    'Troubling' erosion of press freedom in certain SADC states

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    A Cameroonian elite Rapid Intervention Battalion member walks along an empty street in the city of Buea in Cameroon's Anglophone southwest region on October 4, 2018. Cameroon’s military detained pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi on August 2, 2019, in Buea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Zohra Bensemra.
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    Freelance journalist Erick Kabendera, who is detained in Tanzania. Credit: CPJ/Jamii Forums.
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    A local market in Dar es Salaam, pictured in May. A group of armed men forcefully took an investigative journalist, Erick Kabendera, from his home outside the city on July 29. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Said Khalfan.
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    3 steps towards 'glass boxing' your company with a Biz Press Office

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    Maxence Melo Mubyazi from Tanzania's Jamii media.
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    Donor-funded journalism is on the rise in Africa: why it needs closer scrutiny

    12 Jul 2019

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    Fake news and the role of the ordinary citizen

    12 Jul 2019

    Sudanese protesters are seen with their smartphones in Khartoum on April 21, 2019. CPJ has called on South African telecommunications company MTN Group to end its role in Sudan’s internet shutdowns. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Ozan Kose.
    MTN Group urged to end participation in internet shutdowns in Sudan

      12 Jul 2019

    In an interview today, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Palamagamba Kabudi said that journalist Azory Gwanda (pictured), who has been missing since 2017, is dead. Credit: CPJ/Mwananchi.
    In BBC interview, Tanzanian foreign minister says journalist Azory Gwanda is dead

    11 Jul 2019

    Ethiopians read newspapers in Addis Ababa on June 24. Following what the government refers to as a failed attempted coup, access to the internet was cut and journalists were arrested. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.
    In era of reform, Ethiopia still reverts to old tactics to censor press

      10 Jul 2019

    Central African Republic gendarmes and police officers are seen on January 2, 2016, in Bangui. Police in Bangui allegedly assaulted two French reporters from AFP recently. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Issouf Sanogo.
    Police arrest, assault 2 AFP journalists in Central African Republic

    3 Jul 2019

    A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.
    CPJ urges Tanzania lawmakers to revise proposed legislative amendments

    27 Jun 2019

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    Media continues to tell the 'Forbidden Stories'

    19 Jun 2019

    CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea
    CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea

    14 Jun 2019

    RIP Raymond Louw
    RIP Raymond Louw

    5 Jun 2019

    Jamal Khashoggi awarded Golden Pen of Freedom
    Jamal Khashoggi awarded Golden Pen of Freedom

    3 Jun 2019

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    #FairnessFirst: A picture tells a thousand words, but should it?

      3 Jun 2019

    Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri, left, and Alagoa Morris, pictured in Abuja after Abiri's release from detention in 2018. A court on May 22, 2019 charged Abiri on three counts and ordered him detained. Credit: CPJ/Alagoa Morris.
    Re-arrest of editor Jones Abiri in Nigeria

    27 May 2019

    Pendulum is swinging towards creeping restrictions across Africa
    Pendulum is swinging towards creeping restrictions across Africa

      3 May 2019

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    Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 16, 2018. A recent thawing of relations between the two countries did not lead to improved conditions for the media in Eritrea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.
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    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
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     10 Sep 2019

    The statue of founding president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in Tanzania’s political capital Dodoma. Credit: WikiCommons.
    Why Tanzania's attacks on free speech break with Nyerere's legacy

     4 Sep 2019

    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
    Fresh vigilance is needed to protect media freedom across Africa

     2 Sep 2019

    A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.
    Onslaught against press freedoms in Tanzania

    26 Aug 2019

    Sphelele Mjadu, Unilever Personal Care Senior Public Relations Manager for Africa and Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, in the UN Women-Dove masterclass panel at the Loeries. Image via Al Nicoll © via Gallo Images.
    #Loeries2019: Our responsibility of better representation in advertising, media

     23 Aug 2019

    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
    'Troubling' erosion of press freedom in certain SADC states

    19 Aug 2019

    A Cameroonian elite Rapid Intervention Battalion member walks along an empty street in the city of Buea in Cameroon's Anglophone southwest region on October 4, 2018. Cameroon’s military detained pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi on August 2, 2019, in Buea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Zohra Bensemra.
    Cameroon's military detains pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi

    15 Aug 2019

    Freelance journalist Erick Kabendera, who is detained in Tanzania. Credit: CPJ/Jamii Forums.
    Tanzania switches track, charges Kabendera with economic crimes

    7 Aug 2019

    A local market in Dar es Salaam, pictured in May. A group of armed men forcefully took an investigative journalist, Erick Kabendera, from his home outside the city on July 29. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Said Khalfan.
    Journalist Erick Kabendera abducted in Tanzania

    30 Jul 2019

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    3 steps towards 'glass boxing' your company with a Biz Press Office

     23 Jul 2019

    Image credit: Juliana Malta on Unsplash
    Wan-Ifra explores how news media is adapting business models to promote press freedom

    22 Jul 2019

    Maxence Melo Mubyazi from Tanzania's Jamii media.
    Tanzanian among annual press freedom awards honourees

    17 Jul 2019

    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
    Donor-funded journalism is on the rise in Africa: why it needs closer scrutiny

    12 Jul 2019

    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
    Fake news and the role of the ordinary citizen

    12 Jul 2019

    Sudanese protesters are seen with their smartphones in Khartoum on April 21, 2019. CPJ has called on South African telecommunications company MTN Group to end its role in Sudan’s internet shutdowns. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Ozan Kose.
    MTN Group urged to end participation in internet shutdowns in Sudan

     12 Jul 2019

    In an interview today, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Palamagamba Kabudi said that journalist Azory Gwanda (pictured), who has been missing since 2017, is dead. Credit: CPJ/Mwananchi.
    In BBC interview, Tanzanian foreign minister says journalist Azory Gwanda is dead

    11 Jul 2019

    Ethiopians read newspapers in Addis Ababa on June 24. Following what the government refers to as a failed attempted coup, access to the internet was cut and journalists were arrested. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.
    In era of reform, Ethiopia still reverts to old tactics to censor press

     10 Jul 2019

    Central African Republic gendarmes and police officers are seen on January 2, 2016, in Bangui. Police in Bangui allegedly assaulted two French reporters from AFP recently. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Issouf Sanogo.
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    A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.
    CPJ urges Tanzania lawmakers to revise proposed legislative amendments

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    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
    Media continues to tell the 'Forbidden Stories'

    19 Jun 2019

    CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea
    CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea

    14 Jun 2019

    RIP Raymond Louw
    RIP Raymond Louw

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    Jamal Khashoggi awarded Golden Pen of Freedom
    Jamal Khashoggi awarded Golden Pen of Freedom

    3 Jun 2019

    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
    #FairnessFirst: A picture tells a thousand words, but should it?

     3 Jun 2019

    Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri, left, and Alagoa Morris, pictured in Abuja after Abiri's release from detention in 2018. A court on May 22, 2019 charged Abiri on three counts and ordered him detained. Credit: CPJ/Alagoa Morris.
    Re-arrest of editor Jones Abiri in Nigeria

    27 May 2019

    Pendulum is swinging towards creeping restrictions across Africa
    Pendulum is swinging towards creeping restrictions across Africa

     3 May 2019

    Image source: Gallo/Getty.
    A mixed bag of media freedom in southern Africa - SAEF

    3 May 2019

    How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes
    How South Africa ranks in the press freedom stakes

     3 May 2019

    Image via : A woman is reflected next to a poster outside a community hall hosting a night vigil for kidnapped photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed, on January 18, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Community members, friends, family and colleagues of photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed held a night vigil at the Lenasia South Civic Centre. Mohamed was abducted in Syria on 10 January while working with the aid mission Gift of the Givers. (Photo by Gallo Images / Dino Lloyd)
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    Reporting on China in Africa is too binary

     30 Apr 2019

    A radio station is seen in Bujumbura, Burundi, on March 19, 2015. Burundi authorities recently banned the BBC and suspended VOA from broadcasting within the country. Source: CPJ.
    Burundi media regulator bans BBC and VOA

    11 Apr 2019

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    Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain
    Africa rising as Bizcommunity launches .Africa domain

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    #HumanRightsDay: The human cost of journalism globally

    19 Mar 2019

    Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as Shawkan, center, is hugged by his parents at his home in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, March 4, 2019. Shawkan was released after five years in prison. Credit: CPJ/AP Photo/Amr Nabil.
    Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan finally free

    5 Mar 2019

    An electoral worker prepares identity card and biometric verification readers, at the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kano, northern Nigeria, on February 14, 2019. CPJ joined a call for Nigeria to ensure that internet and social media services remain connected during the upcoming elections. Credit: CPJ/AP Photo/Ben Curtis.
    Nigeria urged not to cut social media during elections

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