Foreign journalists in the Egyptian trenches

On November 8, 2022, Bel Trew, a journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon at the time and working for The Independent tweeted that a group of journalists had been barred from entering Egypt to cover the Climate Change Conference.

“The arrests / deportations/ removal of press accreditation /entry bans have impacted reporters connected to major British media outlets from wires to TV to newspapers,” Trew said in her tweet.

SOMALIA JOURNALISTS’ ASSOCIATIONS BATTLE TO FOSTER MEDIA FREEDOM

Photo: (from web) Journalists at a press conference in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Working under a violence free environment has always been a dream to every Somali journalist yet it has been far from reach for a long time. Journalists seem to have lost hope due to increased cases of arrests, cold blood murders, gender-based violence and more, which seems to be a double-edged sword from both the government and the Al-Shabab military group.

Private Media, Government content

Salva Kiir, President of South Sudan

 

Full story of media ownership in South Sudan: https://nanyombizaharah.wordpress.com/2018/06/23/private-media-government-content/#more-325

A culture of fear and silence continues to grow in South Sudan as media regulation and censorship dictate content output.