CPJ Africa - Committee to Protect Journalists

09/30/2026

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🎥 "Let my father return home"
On September 29, 2025, unidentified men abducted Mamoudou Babila Keita’s father from his home in retaliation for his journalistic work.
Despite authorities announcing an investigation, Keita and his family still have no news of Elhadj Adama Keita, now 76 years old.
CPJ calls on Guinean authorities to take action to ensure Elhadj Adama Keita’s safe return to his family.
Babila Journaliste

09/29/2026

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Le CPJ se joint aux six journalistes signataires d’une tribune pour appeler les autorités togolaises à établir les responsabilités dans leur agression le 29 septembre 2024, alors qu’ils couvraient une rencontre de l’opposition.

En savoir plus :
https://cpj.org/fr/2024/10/au-moins-6-journalistes-togolais-agresses-alors-quils-couvraient-une-rencontre-dun-parti-dopposition/`

Deux ans après leur agression à Lomé, six journalistes togolais dénoncent, dans une tribune, le silence de la justice et…

09/29/2026

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🎥 « Laissez mon père rentrer à la maison. »

Il y a un an, des hommes non identifiés ont enlevé le père de Mamoudou Babila Keita Babila Journaliste à son domicile, en représailles à son travail journalistique.

Malgré l’annonce par les autorités de l’ouverture d’une enquête, Keita et sa famille sont toujours sans nouvelles d’Elhadj Adama Keita, aujourd’hui âgé de 76 ans.

Le CPJ appelle les autorités guinéennes à agir pour permettre le retour sain et sauf d’Elhadj Adama Keita auprès de ses proches.

09/29/2026

⚖️ Free the 🇪🇷
CPJ calls on Eritrean authorities to account for these journalists’ health, whereabouts, and legal status. Their families have a right to know.
Read more: https://cpj.org/awards/the-eritrea-16/

09/29/2026

CPJ calls for the immediate release of journalist Abdiqani Hussein Abokor, known as Baylood, who has been in detention for one month after interviewing a poet, and to stop criminalizing journalism.
In Abdiqani’s video interview, Ismail Yusuf Abdi, also known as Jiheeye, recited a poem warning Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi that he would be cursed if he did not intervene in the seizure of land that the well-known poet said he owned.

Abdiqani was detained in Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa on August 29 and charged with spreading fake news on September 15. His trial has yet to begin.

Read more: https://cpj.org/data/people/abdiqani-hussein-abokor/

09/28/2026

World News Day is a day to recognise what goes into journalism: the questioning, investigating, and explaining; the dogged persistence to get to the truth.

CPJ defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal.

09/28/2026

🇪🇷 As foreign minister Osman Saleh prepares to address on Monday, CPJ calls on authorities to free the , among the longest-detained journalists in the world. Most have been arbitrarily imprisoned for 25 years, without trial or access to their families.

In 2016, Osman told Radio France International that the journalists were alive and would face trial "when the government decides."

CPJ calls on Eritrean authorities to account for these journalists’ health, whereabouts, and legal status. Their families have a right to know.

Read more: https://cpj.org/awards/the-eritrea-16/

09/25/2026

🇬🇼 Enquanto o primeiro-ministro Ilídio Vieira Té se prepara para discursar na na sexta-feira, o CPJ insta as autoridades a restabelecerem o direito da mídia de cobrir as notícias livremente, revogando a proibição de realizar coletivas de imprensa — em vigor desde 9 de janeiro e instituída pelo governo de transição nomeado pelos militares após o golpe de novembro.

As autoridades também devem permitir que as emissoras internacionais RTP e Lusa retomem suas transmissões, após terem sido proibidas pelo governo anterior em 15 de agosto.

Leia mais: https://cpj.org/africa/guinea-bissau/

📷 Reuters

09/25/2026

🇿🇦 CPJ is concerned about Tuesday’s harassment of freelance journalist Warren Mabona while reporting on contaminated water supplies for GroundUp news agency in Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria. A resident stopped Mabona, searched his bag, forced him to delete several photographs, and threatened to mobilize residents to assault him. The journalist was unable to leave the area for two hours.

Ward councillor Fidel Phiri told CPJ by phone that journalists did not need the municipality’s permission to report in the area.

CPJ urges South African authorities to ensure that journalists can report on matters of public interest without obstruction or intimidation as the country counts down to local elections in November.

Read more:
https://groundup.org.za/article/my-two-hour-detention-while-reporting-on-the-water-crisis-in-bronkhorstspruit/

09/25/2026

🇨🇲 Le CPJ appelle les autorités camerounaises à établir les responsabilités dans la détention de quatre journalistes soupçonnés d’avoir volé les lunettes d’un ministre, une affaire qui a suscité des appels au boycott des événements du ministre.

« L’expérience de la détention arbitraire vécue par François Essomba, Igor Gwet Bibey, Solange Djuikam et Pierre Mouchili illustre la réalité terrifiante du métier de journaliste au Cameroun, où une journée ordinaire de reportage peut rapidement tourner au cauchemar », a déclaré Moussa Ngom, représentant du CPJ pour l’Afrique francophone.

Solange Djuikam a passé sept nuits en cellule avant d’être libérée, tandis que François Essomba, Igor Gwet Bibey et Pierre Mouchili ont été gardés à vue pendant cinq nuits.

En savoir plus :
https://cpj.org/2026/09/4-cameroonian-journalists-jailed-for-theft-of-ministers-glasses-that-he-later-found/