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Paris (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron was set to host Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks in Paris on Thursday, outraging rights groups and the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A number of independent Algerian newspapers, prestigious francophone daily El Watan chief among them, are undergoing a period of crisis aggravated by political and economic pressures that may threaten their existence. This situation raises questions about the future of Algerian media, and more broadly about freedom of the press.

C4ADS report says crackdown on patronage networks was a contributing factor to last October’s coup.

Ukrainian photographer Maksim Levin was "executed in cold blood" alongside his friend Oleksiy Chernyshov by Russian forces north of Kyiv on March 13, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a 16-page report on Wednesday.

Report says Maks Levin, 40 and soldier Oleksiy Chernyshov may have been tortured before being killed

Jerusalem (AFP) - Following the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh during a raid in the occupied West Bank, AFP has looked at the Israeli army's record of probing previous journalist deaths.

Do ordinary people really care about press freedom? Or is this just an elitist concern, although the elite in this country would not exert themselves to defend this particular freedom?

When media rights are curtailed, fake news and posts on social platforms drive tension and violence, as the latest World Press Freedom Index starkly shows

Despite a peace deal signed in 2020, a military coup in Sudan last year has brought back instability in the region.