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People take part in a parade to mark the 24th self-declared independence day for the breakaway region of Somaliland in the capital Hargeisa on May 18, 2015. On November 18, 2019, Somaliland police shut down a TV station and arrested its editor. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Feisal Omar.

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Somaliland police shut down Horn Cable TV, arrest its editor

21 Nov 2019

Four Iwacu journalists, from left, Térence Mpozenzi, Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana, and their driver, Adolphe Masabarikiza, are detained in Burundi. Credit: CPJ/Iwacu Media.

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Burundi police arrest Iwacu journalists covering unrest

28 Oct 2019

A police officer is seen in N'Djamena, Chad, on July 11, 2015. A N'Djamena court recently charged two Chadian journalists with criminal defamation and sentenced one to jail. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Moumine Ngarmbassa.

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Journalists fined, one jailed over criminal defamation complaint in Chad

26 Sep 2019

A police officer is seen in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on May 16, 2016. Police in Hargeisa recently arrested Horyaal 24 TV owner Mohamed Osman Mireh. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Mohamed Abdiwahab.

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Somaliland police raid Horyaal 24 TV offices

11 Sep 2019

Tanzania detains Watetezi TV journalist over investigation of police

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Tanzania detains Watetezi TV journalist over investigation of police

26 Aug 2019

PIC: Ethiopians follow the news on television at a cafe in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, June 23, 2019. Ethiopian authorities arrested journalist Mesganaw Getachew on August 9 after he filmed outside a court in Addis Ababa. Credit: CPJ/AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene.

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Ethiopian authorities arrest journalist Mesganaw Getachew

23 Aug 2019

A man rides a motorcycle as young people of the Sidama ethnic group, the largest in southern Ethiopia, celebrate at Hawassa city over plans by local elders to declare the establishment of a breakaway region for the Sidama, in Awasa, July 15, 2019. Authorities arrested three media workers from the Sidama Media Network on July 18. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Michael Tewelde.

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Ethiopia detains journalists amid southern unrest

13 Aug 2019

Freelance journalist Erick Kabendera, who is detained in Tanzania. Credit: CPJ/Jamii Forums.

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Tanzania switches track, charges Kabendera with economic crimes

7 Aug 2019

A screenshot of Dar es Salaam police chief Lazaro Mambosasa, left, speaking at a July 30 press conference. Mambosasa said that police have detained freelancer Erick Kabendera. Credit: CPJ/YouTube/Kwanza TV.

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Tanzania detains freelancer Kabendera over 'citizenship'

31 Jul 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.

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Journalist Erick Kabendera abducted in Tanzania

30 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.

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In era of reform, Ethiopia still reverts to old tactics to censor press

Muthoki Mumo 10 Jul 2019

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Somaliland bans two privately owned TV stations

1 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.

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CPJ urges Tanzania lawmakers to revise proposed legislative amendments

27 Jun 2019

The Uganda High Court is in Kampala on May 14, 2018. CPJ today called for Ugandan authorities to intervene and end the criminal case against editor Pidson Kareire. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Isaac Kasamani.

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Ugandan editor charged with criminal libel

18 Jun 2019

Prison guards are seen at Somaliland's Hargeisa prison on March 29, 2011. Television reporter Abdirahman Keyse Mohamed was recently arrested by police in Somaliland and is being held without charge in a prison in Las Anod. Credit: CPJ/AP/Katharine Houreld)

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Somaliland journalist injured during arrest, jailed without charge

22 May 2019

Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine appears for his bail application via a video link from prison, on a television screen in a court in Kampala, Uganda, on May 2, 2019. Uganda's media regulator suspended staff from 13 broadcast outlets for covering his arrest. Credit: CPJ/AP/Ronald Kabuubi.

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Ugandan regulator suspends staff from 13 outlets that covered Bobi Wine

10 May 2019

Traffic flows in Mogadishu's Hodan district in 2018. On March 30, 2019 armed men raided the offices of Somalia's Universal TV station. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Feisal Omar.

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Armed men raid Somalia's Universal TV, fire guns in station

15 Apr 2019

Soldiers stand guard on April 2, 2019, in Moroni, the capital of the Comoros. Journalists have been detained and newspapers have been disrupted surrounding the country's recent presidential election. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Youssouf Ibrahim.

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Comoros authorities detain journalist, censor newspapers amid political crisis

15 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.

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Burundi media regulator bans BBC and VOA

11 Apr 2019

Gendarmerie officers stand guard on March 24, 2019, in Moroni, Comoros. Two journalists have been detained without trial in the country since February. Credit: CPJ/Gianluigi Guercia/AFP.

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Two journalists held in pretrial detention since February in Comoros

3 Apr 2019

A Tanzanian shoe-shiner conducts his business underneath an election poster for then ruling party presidential candidate, and later president, John Magufuli, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on October 27, 2015. On March 28, 2019, the East African Court of Justice found that multiple sections of Tanzania's Media Services Act restrict press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AP Photo/Khalfan Said.

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Tanzania media laws violate press freedom

1 Apr 2019

Tanzanians sit next to a tree in Dar es Salaam in 2015. Tanzanian authorities this week imposed a temporary ban on The Citizen over its reporting. Credit: CPJ/AP/Khalfan Said.

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Tanzania imposes 7-day publication ban on The Citizen

11 Mar 2019

A young man looks through a book at the Hargeisa International Book Fair in the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa on July 21, 2018. Somaliland authorities recently issued a one-year suspension of the privately owned Foore newspaper. Credit: CPJ/Mustafa Saeed/AFP).

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Somaliland court suspends newspaper for one year for publishing 'false news'

28 Feb 2019

Ugandan journalists sit outside the office of the Daily Monitor, which was closed by armed police. The Monitor's website was recently ordered to suspend publication over a regulatory dispute. (Isaac Kasamani/AFP)

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Uganda regulator threatens news website

14 Feb 2019

South Sudan bars newspaper from covering Sudanese protests

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South Sudan bars newspaper from covering Sudanese protests

23 Jan 2019

A screen shot from December 2017 displaying the front pages of Tanzanian newspapers Mwananchi and The Citizen, calling on the Tanzanian government to help find missing journalist Azory Gwanda.

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Where is journalist Azory Gwanda?

22 Nov 2018

Angela Quintal of the CPJ. Image ©

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My nasty encounter with Tanzanian repression

Angela Quintal 14 Nov 2018

Muthoki Mumo and Angela Quintal, Committee to Protect Journalists' Africa team.

Media Freedom

Detained CPJ staffers released in Tanzania

9 Nov 2018

#FairnessFirst: Why investigative journalism and media freedom matters

Fairness First

#FairnessFirst: Why investigative journalism and media freedom matters

Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2018

Media activist Angela Quintal reported to be safe

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Media activist Angela Quintal reported to be safe

Louise Marsland 8 Nov 2018

Radio journalist gunned down in Somalia

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Radio journalist gunned down in Somalia

1 Nov 2018

Mobile internet cut in Ethiopia

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Mobile internet cut in Ethiopia

26 Sep 2018

Security forces detain a protester in Kampala on August 20. Security personnel beat and detained at least four journalists who were covering unrest in Uganda's capital. Credit: AP/Ronald Kabuubi/CPJ.

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Ugandan security forces attack and detain journalists covering protests

27 Aug 2018

Nigerian journalist Samuel Ogundipe, who was detained August 14 by Nigerian police. Credit: Premium Times.

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Nigerian journalist jailed for refusing to reveal source

20 Aug 2018

Lesotho authorities accuse MoAfrika FM of incitement

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Lesotho authorities accuse MoAfrika FM of incitement

17 Aug 2018

Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri (left) and Alagoa Morris (right) in Abuja after Abiri's release from detention on August 15, 2018.

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CPJ welcomes release of Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri

16 Aug 2018

Kenyan politicians threaten media

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Kenyan politicians threaten media

6 Aug 2018

Posta to test bus service for SGR train passengers

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Posta to test bus service for SGR train passengers

Muthoki Mumo 4 Jun 2017