Jean Hélène, a French correspondent for Radio France Internationale (RFI) was shot by a police man outside a police station in Abidjan on 21 October, while waiting for the release of opposition party activists who had been detained the previous week. Eyewitnesses reported that the policeman came into the station and told the senior police officer there was a “white man” outside. He was told the man was a journalist, and was expected. The policeman then left the building and a shot was heard soon afterwards. The cause of the shooting is not known.

Kloueu Gonzreu, a journalist for the state-owned Agence ivoirienne de press (AIP), was found in the western region of Toulépleu on 19 March. He had been missing since 11 January. An official explanation for his murdered has not been given, yet several sources claim he was arrested by Liberians fighting alongside pro-government forces. The Pro-governance newspaper Notre Pays had also recently accused Mr Gonzreu of favouring the rebels in the country’s civil conflict. Mr Gonzreu was a also part-time history and geography teacher and worked for the local branch of the Red Cross. His son, as well as two other Red Cross volunteers, also went missing around the time of his disappearance; all three bodies were found in January, prompting speculation Gonzreu had had been murdered as well.