Journalists and the truth under threat

A Japanese journalist has been arrested and held in prison in Myanmar for reporting the news. He is accused of reporting “fake news” under the tough restrictions on reporting by the military junta. The killing in that country goes on but it is not mainstream journalists that are widely reporting it. A new generation of amateur volunteer journalists — the civil reporters — who are often in the thick of demonstrations reporting live over the internet when it is not shut off.

In Zimbabwe, two Spanish journalists, David Beriain and cameraman Roberto Fraile, were killed in an ambush of an army convoy in the tri-border Sahel zone of Mali, Niger and Burkina Fasso in the African Sahel region. They were on their way to a national park where poachers and armed groups are actively killing wildlife such as elephants and rhinos.