Reporters Without Borders
2006 Report
Two countries moved into the Index’s top 20 for the first time. Bolivia (16th) was best-placed among less-developed countries and during the year its journalists enjoyed the same level of freedom as colleagues in Canada or Austria. Bosnia-Herzegovina (19th) continued its gradual rise up the Index since the end of the war in ex-Yugoslavia and is now placed above its European Union member-state neighbours Greece (32nd) and Italy (40th). ‘Unfortunately nothing has changed in the countries that are the worst predators of press freedom,’ RSF said.
Currently all independent newspapers in Ethiopia are banned and news websites are blocked. Several journalists are languishing in jails, and many went into exile, including the president of Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association, Ato Kifle Mulat.