Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Alice Nderitu, Zimbabwe’s clampdown on social media, newspaper shutdowns in Tanzania, Cameroon journalists released and more in our October round-up of news from Africa.

Forbidden Stories, a project that secures the data and information of threatened journalists, aims to continue the work of investigative reporters, even after they have been imprisoned or killed.

Following an unprecedented crackdown by Vietnam’s government, a new coalition is looking to protect free expression in that country by saying: #StopTheCrackdownVN.

Publisher Juda Allahondoum has been detained since 17 October, following a story he wrote about a Chadian airline’s alleged involvement in arms deliveries to Syria.

A leading community radio station, Radio Mbari, has been forced to close after being threatened by armed groups in the Central African Republic.

The killing of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb has sparked shock and outrage across Europe.

RSF urges the Ukrainian authorities to free Fikret Huseynli at once and calls for an urgent reform of Interpol, whose red notice system is often abused by repressive governments in order to pursue dissidents after they have fled abroad.

Announcing the decision on 28 September, Burundi’s National Council for Communication (CNC) said Radio Publique Africaine, Radio Bonesha, Radio Renaissance and Télévision Renaissance were having their licences rescinded for spending more than three months without broadcasting and for “failing to sort out their judicial status in time.”