The Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors (NAIRE) has issued a call to support the efforts of its members in exposing regimes consisting of “kleptocrats who sell out resources, promote incompetence and nepotism, and oppress civil society.”
Noting that these same regimes harass, imprison, and even kill credible journalists and increasingly “pay fake news reporters and publications to drown out those who aim to unveil injustice,” the NAIRE members add that “international powers (should) take cognisance of reports (that) have highlighted the cry for freedom that is growing louder in more and more of our countries”.
As “investigative reporters committed to democracy, social justice, transparency, and accountability”, the group says, “we need to be heard and read in London, Paris, New York and indeed Moscow, Teheran, or Beijing.”
