By Courtney C. Radsch/CPJ Advocacy Director Last week, I met a Cameroonian journalist who worked in the Congo until he fled following a series of threats and an attack on his home by armed m... Read more
By Kayode Ketefe Today, May 1, 2015, like first day of every May, is International Workers’ Day! It is a day historically-linked with working people in their struggles to actualise fair and... Read more
By David Brooks Lately it seems as though every few months there’s another urban riot and the nation turns its attention to urban poverty. And in the midst of every storm, there are people c... Read more
By Bola Ahmed Tinubu The destructive attacks in South Africa on Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans are tragic and mindlessly wrong. The assaults sorely bruise the objective of inter-Af... Read more
By Ferial Haffajee If Chumani Maxwele were Chinese, there is a good chance he would own a string of start-ups and be well on his way to becoming a multimillionaire. Instead, this student lea... Read more
CPJ releases annual assessment of press freedom worldwide. New York, April 27, 2015 – Terrorist groups and the governments who purport to fight them have made recent years the most dan... Read more
By Michael Weiss General Muhammed Buhari’s political partner is a former bagman for two heroin traffickers. But that’s just business as usual in Nigeria. Nigeria’s election last month was ce... Read more
An analysis in The Times — “1.5 Million Missing Black Men” — showed that more than one in every six black men in the 24-to-54 age group has disappeared from civic life, mainly because they d... Read more
By Kayode Ketefe Today, April 26, 2015, (like April 26 of every year) is the World Intellectual Property Day, a day set apart annually to celebrate human creative endeavours as evinced in or... Read more
By Kerry Paterson/CPJ Africa Research Associate It will be one year this weekend since six bloggers were arrested in Addis Ababa, just days after the group announced on Facebook that their Z... Read more
