Two Russian journalists have been accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny. If convicted, they could face years in prison. 

DW's first radio address in Arabic was held in 1959. Since then, the Arabic program, now a multimedia offering, has been building bridges between Germany and the MENA region and is constantly reinventing itself. 

The documentary marks the first of its kind, examining the role of German and Belgian colonialism in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It premieres on April 5 on DW. 

As the world gears up for the Russian presidential elections scheduled for 17 March, DW announces the launch of a Russian channel tailored for the Svoboda satellite package, operated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). 

After three years of supporting local and regional media in Ukraine, the EU and German-funded program will host an event on the future of journalism in Ukraine on April 18 and 19. 

After the DW Spanish language television channel's broadcast signal was removed from cable operators' programming in Venezuela, DW Director General Limbourg is calling for the signal to be restored. 

Since 2019, DW has cut CO2 emissions by 60 percent and strategically aligned its sustainability management. DW's environmental and social initiatives are detailed in its third sustainability report. 

Russia's declaration of US foreign broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) as an "undesirable organization" marks another severe blow to press freedom. DW expresses solidarity with RFE/RL. 

Ghazaleh Zarea, whose uncle Farhad Payar was a journalist with DW Persian, has received a three-year prison sentence from Iran's Revolutionary Court. "Collaborating with Deutsche Welle Persian" was one of the charges. 

On March 21, DW Bulgarian will launch an Instagram account to better reach its young Bulgarian-speaking target group.  

As of January 2024, Deutsche Welle is cooperating with the learning program 'Employers for Equality' to strengthen equality of opportunity and inclusion within DW. 

Deutsche Welle unveils the digital literacy format ClickITeasy/Digital Natives, a 30-part on-demand series in English, Amharic, French, Hausa, Kiswahili and Portuguese. 

The second season of "Don't Hold Back – Say It Loud", co-produced by DW and South African partners Jacaranda FM and East Coast Radio, is out with ten new episodes. The first episode was released on November 15. 

DW correspondent Tania Krämer was awarded the Werner Holzer Prize for Outstanding Foreign Journalism for her reporting from Israel and the Middle East on November 14 in Frankfurt. 

Together with its Senegal-based distribution partner Label TV, DW has produced ten episodes of its popular format "The 77 Percent" in French. The magazine is oriented towards young people in Africa.