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Seychelles has gone down three notches on the World Press Freedom Index 2024. The country went down from 34th place in 2023 to 37th in 2024 published by the Reporters Without Borders (RWB), a Paris-based non-governmental organisation.
Seychelles has gone down three notches on the World Press Freedom Index 2024. The country went down from 34th to place in 2023 to 37th in 2024 published by the Reporters Without Borders (RWB), a Paris-based non-governmental organisation.The ranking is released every year to coincide with World Press Freedom Day on May 3, a date that celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom around the world.
The ranking is based on five indicators – political, economic, legislative, social, and security. The political indicator has fallen the most, registering a global average fall of 7.6 points. In 2022, the island nation was ranked 13th out of 180 countries and was the highest ranking in Sub-Saharan Africa – a ranking it lost last year when it fell 21 places on the index.
The chairman of the Association of Media Practitioners in Seychelles (AMPS), Rassin Vannier, stated that the AMPS plans “to hold consultative meetings with the authorities to stop a further decline. Vannier was speaking at a half-day seminar AMPS held in collaboration with the French Embassy in Seychelles to mark World Press Freedom Day.
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Reporters Without Borders defines press freedom as the ability of journalists as individuals and collectives to select, produce, and disseminate news in the public interest independent of political, economic, legal, and social interference and in the absence of threats to their physical and mental safety. The World Press Freedom Index compares the level of freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories.
