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Between stoned press vehicles, internet blackouts, and the journalists who have been sprayed with tear gas, arrested and threatened online, press freedom has been gravely attacked

RSF — whose staff was present in Addis Ababa — recently launched an appeal to protect local journalism alongside over 500 community radio stations in the Sahel, and invites the region’s authorities to promise to protect the right to information.

Rather than doubling down on the hostility he has espoused towards the media so far, President-elect Trump should take the opportunity to repair the domestic press freedom climate and reposition the U.S. as a global leader in press freedom.

As the appeal hearing for Mongolian journalist Unurtsetseg Naran — sentenced to prison earlier this year — approaches, RSF is sounding the alarm about a concerning lack of transparency in these legal proceedings.

As Americans cast their votes on November 5, RSF is once again urging both presidential campaigns to commit to protecting and promoting press freedom.

RSF used its mirror site technology "Collateral Freedom" to restore online access to the Flow HK, Hong Kong media exiled in Taiwan.

Two Myanmar journalists, held for a month by an armed group opposing the military regime, have recently been freed, although no explanation has been provided regarding the reasons for their abduction.

RSF is deeply concerned that American media – and in turn, the wider public – may be growing numb to the existential threat Trump’s attacks pose to American press freedom.

In front of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), the Burkinabe authorities broke their silence on the fate of three journalists who disappeared in June: they were drafted into the army.