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On International Women’s Day, the global journalism community stands in solidarity with the women journalists in Ukraine

The revelation of corruption in the fishing industry has rocked the ruling party — but not sunk it. 

In some ways, Namibia’s recent history has been a dress rehearsal of South Africa’s. In 1990 South West Africa, as it was called then, became independent of the South African National Party’s apartheid government, ushering in a SWAPO (South West Africa People’s Organisation) government. That prefigured the South African majority’s emancipation from that same government in 1994, which brought SWAPO’s liberation movement ally, the African National Congress (ANC)...

MONROVIA – Liberia has once again been placed in the global spotlight, with one of her illustrious daughters— Mae Azango named as a juror on the prestigious United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World

November 2021 in Africa: A free expression round up produced by IFEX’s Regional Editor Reyhana Masters, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

September 2021 in Africa: A free expression round up by IFEX’s Regional Editor Reyhana Masters, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region. An audio discussion relating to this piece, focusing on #IDUAI with Gilbert Sendugwa of the Africa Freedom of Information Centre and Lamin Jahateh, of the Gambia Press Union, is available here.

Part of the Faces of Free Expression exhibit in Pittsburgh / Matt Petras Read Annie Game’s remarks at the launch of a unique WPFD exhibit, and listen to a special Africa Brief podcast marking 30 years since the landmark Windhoek Declaration. To mark International Free Expression Project on an exhibit that spotlights selected illustrations from our Faces of Free Expression series. The images and text fill the street-level windows of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building, ...

Graphic Online BY: Kweku Zurek 705 Representatives of the world media have converged on Windhoek, Namibia, to commemorate this years World Press Freedom Day (WPFD). This year’s commemoration marks the 30th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, developed by African journalists who pressed for a free, independent and pluralistic African press at a seminar organised by the UN and UNESCO in Windhoek in 1991. The declaration also triggered the proclamation of May 3 as World Press Freedom Day b...

IFJ 30 April 2021 IFJ at World Press Freedom Day in Namibia Information as a public good is the subject of World Press Freedom Day, held in Windhoek, Namibia, 30 years after the Windhoek Declaration (3 May 1991). It remains a seminal event for the development of a free, independent and pluralistic press. World Press Freedom Day has its origins in the UNESCO conference in Windhoek. Below you will find the programme with the participation of the IFJ and its regions. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Regiona...

On May 3, 1991, African journalists issued the Windhoek Declaration, a document setting out principles committed to a free press. Journalists Gwen Lister and Tabani Moyo discuss the challenges facing African media today.