50 journalists killed in 1995
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The toll was grim, but it was less than half the 103 journalists killed in action in 1994, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in a report. In the past eight years, 498 journalists have been slain, it said.
The group said it was investigating the deaths of five other journalists in Russia and three others in Bosnia to determine whether they died as a direct result of exercising their profession.
Of the 50 confirmed journalist deaths so far this year, 28 were in Africa: 22 in Algeria, three in Burundi, and one each in Angola, Somalia and Tunisia.
Muslim militants trying to topple the militarybacked Algerian government have intentionally targeted journalists, mainly Algerian nationals covering the civil strife.
In the last three years, at least 49 journalists have been slain in Algeria, including 18 last year and nine in 1993.
Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union accounted for 10 journalist deaths: five in Russia, two in Tajikistan and one each in Azerbaijan, Croatia and Britain.
