Yemen Monitor/Newsroom
According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Yemen is ranked 154th out of 180 countries in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index.
In its annual report, RSF said that Yemen ranked 154th, an improvement from its 164th place last year. Somalia ranked 145th globally, followed by Sudan at 149th, Palestine at 157th, the United Arab Emirates at 160th, Djibouti at 161st, Saudi Arabia at 166th, Iraq at 169th, Egypt at 170th, and Bahrain at 173rd.
RSF stressed that the situation is “extremely serious” in nearly half of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as the United Arab Emirates has become the ninth country in the region to be placed in the red zone of the map, joining Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Palestine, Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, and Egypt.
