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Kunle Adebajo from Nigeria poses with his award for West Africa's Journalist of the Year 2025. Photo: Media Foundation for West Africa/Google Maps composite.

West Africa's Journalist of the Year

An award-winning journalist's IWPR story revealed how international crowdfunding fuels separatist conflict in Nigeria.

On January 13, 2022, a group of men in balaclavas, armed with guns and broken bottles, forced their way into a broadcast studio in Ada Foah, Ghana. Gabriel Adjaotor, a popular presenter on the community station Radio Ada, was beaten and kicked during the attack. © Edward Clement Kumsah

World Press Freedom Day 2025

How African Journalists are Defying Censorship

In the face of harassment and repression, media across the continent is not only surviving but innovating.

Philip Teye Agbove has been shortlisted for the prestigious Amnesty Media Awards 2025. © Gyanford/Wikimedia

FRONTLINE UPDATE

IWPR Journalist Shortlisted for “Outstanding” Investigation

IWPR journalist shortlisted for a prestigious award for his reporting on a controversial mining deal.

A family in front of of their house in the Yechila district on February 19, 2024 in Tigray Region, Ethiopia. © Ed Ram/Getty Images

As Conflict Rages, Journalists in Ethiopia Contend With Crackdowns on Independent Media

Ghana election official sealing the ballot box prior to the December 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections. © Commonwealth Secretariat/Creative Commons

Blood on the Ballot: Election Violence in Ghana

Political polarisation, vigilante groups and the security agencies’ excessive use of force have fed the turmoil.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan, elected in March 2021 had promised to usher in an era of increased political openness. However the kidnappings and disappearances continued to plague the system. © Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Tanzania: Action Urged Against Political Kidnapping

Critics warn that state agencies seem incapable of addressing incidents effectively.

A militiaman poses with his weapon at an informal demobilization camp in Sevare, Mali, on July 6, 2019. The camp is run by a businessman with the goal of shifting young Fulani men away from jihadism. © Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Why Militancy is Spreading in Mali

Award-winning journalist Issa Sikiti da Silva investigates civilian abuses in Mali.

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A woman reacts over the body of her daughter, next to a clinic that was damaged during a Russian missile attack, on June 1, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. At least three were killed, including a child, and others were injured by falling debris from intercepted missiles. © Roman Pilipey/Getty Images

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Ukraine Justice: “Reporting the Story is Just the Start”

Journalists need training and support to properly cover war crimes trials.

Students attend a lesson on housekeeping at a training facility for domestic workers on November 22, 2022 in Kampala, Uganda. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are a frequent destination for Ugandan domestic workers, with official estimates suggesting that around one hundred and sixty-five thousand Ugandans are in temporary employment contracts in the region. © Luke Dray/Getty Images

International Migrants Day

Ugandan Women Pay the Price of Exploitation

Activists warn that vulnerable domestic workers risk abuse, often returning with serious health conditions.

Ukraine War Diary by A. Borden

Harsh Victory at Position X

Commitment, sacrifice and luck secured a vital early win in the south-eastern campaign, but can Ukrainian forces press on?

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Behind the Wheel in a Macho City

Some women face Adana's male-dominated traffic chaos for a living.

Karine (not her real name) was 15 when she realised that the male body she was born into was not hers. She moved from the rural community she grew up in to the capital Yerevan to be free to be herself. Unlinke many people in her community she was able to find a stable job as a hairdresser and manicurist. © Anahit Zakaryan

Life in the Shadows for Armenia’s Transgender Community

Recent murder highlights widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTI people.

An AFPTV cameraman films while smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023 as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8. © Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

The Israel-Hamas Conflict

Interview: The War on Disinformation

Open source intelligence (OSINT) can provide facts – but impatient, angry audiences often prefer opinions.