The Committee to Protect Journalists published on 10 December 2025 a press release titled "Ethiopian TikTok Journalist Eyob Shimelis Detained after Corruption Reporting."
Ethiopian authorities arrested on December 1 the founder and reporter of TikTok-based Sidama News, which reports on corruption in Ethiopia's southern Sidama state.
The Committee to Protect Journalists published on 6 November 2025 a news release titled "As Sudan's El Fasher Falls, the World Loses Sight of Its Journalists."
Since the Rapid Support Forces captured El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, from the Sudan Armed Forces, 13 journalists and media workers have gone missing.
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