Recent legal battles highlight a troubling trend in South Africa, where journalists are increasingly targeted with harassment suits aimed at silencing them.

African developers, lawmakers and civil society are partnering with women to embed safety into digital platforms from the ground up, with the aim of preventing tech-driven gender violence before it ...

The scandal around Uganda’s tech-driven Express Penalty Scheme revealed deep failures in digital public infrastructure governance from opaque foreign contracts, to unsafe data practices.

"Across India, a quiet purge of digital content is underway." This statement was originally published on indexoncensorship.org on 23 July 2025. Journalism critical of the government is vanishing from ...

IFEX’s May briefs chart crackdowns and civil society pushback: disinformation stokes India-Pakistan tensions; Palestinian journalists face Israeli attacks and starvation in Gaza; Africa mourns ...

The standoff between the Nigerian government and Meta, is emblematic of a broader movement reflecting the growing continental push to reclaim regulatory authority over global tech giants. While this ...

Somali journalists reporting on security issues are facing a surge in arrests, harassment, and assaults, as authorities claim the clampdown is needed to fight extremism and protect national security.

IFEX spoke with the director of the Comprova project, Sérgio Lüdtke, to better understand how artificial intelligence is reshaping disinformation threats in Brazil – and how collaborative journalism ...

Threats were the most common attack on journalists in Ukraine in January, with press outlets continuing to receive anonymous bomb threats via email.

Israel's forcible closure of the news network's office in Ramallah and the confiscation of its equipment threaten press safety in Palestine.

La investigadora Cora Gamarnik denunció una drástica reducción en el alcance de sus publicaciones tras un bloqueo en Facebook recibido en diciembre de 2022.

A Supreme Court of Kenya ruling meant to reaffirm the rights of queer Kenyans as guaranteed in the Constitution was ironically used to unleash unbalanced, politically-motivated homophobia, especially ...