Are Ugandans getting decent coverage of the 2016 General Elections? Are the media focusing on the issues that matter to voters? And are journalists free to report on everything? These are some of the issues addressed in this week’s African Media by RFI’s Christina Okello, who travelled to Uganda for an exclusive report.   NB: This report was sponsored by the International Women's Media Foundation as part of its Africa Great Lakes Reporting Initiative.

In an exclusive interview, Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas talks to RFI about the ongoing court cases against several judges implicated in his undercover sting operation revealing alleged corruption within Ghana’s judiciary. Anas speaks about Ghana’s 2016 elections and his next “huge” undercover investigation involving several African countries and the West. You play many different roles - are you a journalist, a policeman or a private investigator? I am anything that...

In this week's African Media, Rfi's Clea Broadhurst looks at the difficulties of reporting on the ground in Burundi. News is in short supply in Burundi after several radio stations were shut down eight months ago, following the attempted coup in May 2014. Today, most station managers and reporters have fled into exile. The journalists who stayed on hardly ever go out because of a climate of terror and a fear of being arrested or worse. However, a collective of journalists emerged...

Authorities in Ethiopia have arrested two journalists linked to coverage of protests in the Oromia region. Getachew Shiferaw, editor-in-chief of the Negere Ethiopia online newspaper, is reportedly to be charged under the country's anti-terror legislation and Fikadu Mirkana, a news anchor at the state-run broadcaster Oromia Radio and TV, was arrested at his home in Addis Ababa. The arrests follow protests in the Oromia region over the government’s plan to extend the boundaries of the capital...

RFI's Clea Broadhurst takes a look at Zone9 collective bloggers in Ethiopia and press freedom in Niger.

In this week’s edition, RFI takes a look at new free guide on development reporting for African journalists that was released by the European Journalism Centre and the Nairobi based NGO Africaonair. Josh LaPorte explains why it was important to release such a guide and why development issues don’t get enough coverage. Plus, we'll hear about Niger, where a string of journalist arrests worries rights groups and in Morocco where journalists are on trial for "threatning national security".

In this week's African Media, we speak to a journalist in the Western Sahara who must practice his craft undercover in order to get the news out. We also hear from an analyst on Tanzania's use of social media during the recent elections, unprofessional journalistic conduct in Somaliland, and an update on the detention of Ahmed Abba, RFI Hausa service correspondent being held in Cameroon.  

In this week’s program, RFI takes a look at an environmental journalism initiative in Southern Africa. Journalist Fiona Macleod will join us to talk about Oxpeckers, an investigative unit that focuses on investigative environmental journalism. She’ll talk about the different initiatives of the South African-based organisation as well as the reasons behind the lack of environmental stories from the African media scene.

In this week’s edition of African Media, RFI's main guest will be Khadija Sharife, an investigative journalist from South Africa who works with the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR). She will be speaking about the goals of her organisation, namely to strengthen investigative journalism in Africa, as well as the various work that has been published by ANCIR, including AfriLeaks.

In this week's African media we talk to Ruth Mc Dowall, a Jos, Nigeria-based photojournalist who photographs young people who escaped from Boko Haram; and Umaru Fofana, a Sierra Leonean reporter who won the Peabody award for his work on the Ebola crisis in his country who speaks about the importance of local journalists.

In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at Code for Africa. Stephen Abbott Pugh, an ICFJ Knight fellow working with Code for Africa, talks about the initiative and how it aims to fund various open-data projects across Africa, enable data journalism and make more information available to the general public. This week's programme will also take a look at Southern Africa, where The Media Institute for Southern Africa released its yearly report titled “Most Open and Secretive Government...

The AFP foundation has launched a fact-checking initiative for African news outlets. Peter Cunliffe-Jones, the head of Africa Check, talks about the reactions the project has garnered from journalists across Africa and the French version that will be launched soon. And activists talk about rights abuses in The Gambia and South Sudan.    

In this week's African Media, RFI looks at efforts taken to protect Sudanese and Kenyan journalists.

In this week's African Media, RFI's Fabien Jannic-Cherbonnel takes a look at a censored documentary in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at US President Barack Obama's visit to Kenya and Ethiopia and the state of press freedom in the two countries.

In this week’s African Media, RFI takes a look at Uganda. That’s where, last week, media rights group Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda, was raided by unknown persons for the second time in two years. According to media watchdogs, such intrusion is a sign that the atmosphere in Uganda is becoming increasingly threatening for journalists.

In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at Chad, where Laurent Correau, a RFI reporter, was kicked out earlier this week.

What makes Namibia one of the best places to be a journalist in the world? The African country ranks 17th in the Reporters without Borders 2015 Press freedom index – higher than France.  

This week’s African Media looks at Sudan’s suspension of different papers. The country is not the best place in the world for reporters, but some journalists still try to do their job there as best as they can.

In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at Angola, where a journalist was condemned after publishing a book on "blood diamonds".    

In this week's African Media, RFI's Fabien Jannic-Cherbonnel takes a look at Burkina Faso, where live broadcasts are banned for the next three months.

In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at press freedom in Burundi, as tensions are mouting after a failed coup. Already in bad shape before the turmoil, activists say press freedom is under threat. Several private radio stations were close down in the past weeks and the Radio Publique Africaine was attacked.

In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at press freedom in Kenya, the "best among the bad ones" as Patrick Mutahi, an activist with Article 19, puts it. Rights groups are warning of a deteriorating climate in the country after the murder of John Kituyi, a local journalist, last week.

In this week's African Media, RFI's Fabien Jannic-Cherbonnel takes a look at war-torn Libya and freedom of the press there.

In this week's African Media, RFI takes a look at Eritrea, the most heavily censored country in the world according to the Comittee to Protect Journalists. Sixteen journalists are currently behind bars in the country, but some are fighting for their release. RFI spoke to Vanessa Berhe, the niece of jailed Eritrean journalist Seyoum Tsehaye. From Sweden, with her organisation One Day Seyoum she tries to raise awareness on the human rights situation in Eritrea.