2018 set to be deadly year for journalists

Condemnation has poured in from across the world after 10 journalists were among dozens killed in attacks in Afghanistan, in what the UN described as the “deliberate targeting” of the media

32  journalists and media staff killed in 2018*

Guatemala 2 
Mexico 2
Nicaragua 1 
Colombia 3
Slovakia 1 
Syria 1
Liberia 1 
Brazil 1
Palestinian Territory 2
Iraq 1
India 2
Pakistan 1 
Afghanistan 11
Yemen 3


Journalists and media staff killed, annual data          *To May 1

2017     82
2016    122
2015    115
2014    135
2013    123



Sources: AFP, IFJ     Picture: Associated Press                © GRAPHIC NEWS