Not long after the formal announcement of the pandemic, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the only Pan-African organisation of journalists in the continent, summoned its governing body to discuss how to commission reports about the situation of journalists, unions and media in Africa. Therefore, FAJ set out to directly ask affiliates – representing tens of thousands of working journalists – seven specific questions regarding the impact in their respective countries. The answers to these seven questions, stemming from 20 unions, are described in this report.