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Attempts to renew broadcasting licences thwarted by authorities in Ethiopia’s Somali region

The Ethiopian Media Authority pushes authorities to suspend the services of Somali-language broadcasts by 15 international television broadcasters operating in the country’s southeastern region.

A reporter stands near ruins of residential buildings destroyed as a result of shelling, in Izium, Ukraine, 14 September 2022. Viacheslav Mavrychev/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

One year of attacks on media in Ukraine

Data collected by Reporters Without Borders and the Institute for Mass Information presents the true cost to journalism in Ukraine of Russia’s invasion.

RSF steps up monitoring of media freedom violations in Brazilian Amazon

RSF is reinforcing its monitoring of press freedom violations in Brazil’s Amazonian region, where journalistic freedom is crucial to combatting climate change.

Mongolia: RSF commends presidential veto of a dangerous social media bill

The bill would have given authorities the power to censor any online content they dislike.

Two refugee journalists in Turkey risk deportation to Syria

“Sending them back to Syria is to send them back to imprisonment, disappearance, or even death,” says RSF.

Anti-journalist terror has grown in every way in two years of military rule in Myanmar

Since the military coup on 1 February 2021, four Burmese journalists have been killed, and no fewer than 130 journalists have been arrested and jailed, and 72 are still being held.

After grenade attack on TV station in Lebanon, concerns about a return to violence against media

“This is an attempt to terrorise journalists, satirists and those who work with them,” says RSF.

Kyrgyz Ministry of Culture seeks closure of independent Radio Azattyk

The ministry is seeking to shut down ‘Radio Azattyk’ because of a 2022 video report about clashes on the Kyrgyz/Tajik border in the Batken region. The media outlet’s websites have been blocked since October.