Moussa Ngom
Moussa Ngom joined the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2023 as a correspondent covering French-speaking Africa. He was named Francophone Africa Representative in January 2025. Since 2019, Ngom has coordinated the independent, award-winning, and publicly funded investigative media network La Maison Des Reporters. He is also a fact-checking trainer at the Dakar-based university journalism school, CESTI (Center for the Study of Information Sciences and Techniques).
CPJ finds flaws, inconsistencies in murder conviction of Senegalese journalist René Capain Bassène
In spite of the Senegalese gendarmerie officer holding a gun held to his head, Ibou Sané held firm. He refused the officer’s order to admit that he knew René Capain Bassène – but in the end it didn’t matter. Testimony he insisted he never gave was used in court to help convict Bassène, a well-known…
Record number of journalists in Senegal’s jails amid political turmoil
Senegalese reporter Ndèye Maty Niang, also known as Maty Sarr Niang, would have likely jumped at the chance to report on the political crisis gripping her country since the president postponed elections in early February. But Niang can’t cover the news – she’s in a women’s prison awaiting trial. She’s not alone: Niang is one…