2003 was not a particularly good year for press freedom in Africa, according to an annual report on press freedom from Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF). "Two journalists were killed in Côte d'Ivoire and a third was probably executed in Democratic Republic of Congo. There were many arrests and the independent press was in the process of disappearing in several countries," the report says. RSF says journalists also counted among the targets of systematic repression in Cameroon, Gabon, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Togo and Zimbabwe.