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AFEX members elected to the IFEX Council

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) extends its warmest congratulations to three outstanding leaders from our member organisations who have been elected to the prestigious IFEX...
Africa 

Navigating Digital Rights in Africa amidst Increasing Foreign Malign...

On May 21, 2026, more than 300 delegates convened in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 19th edition of the Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KeIGF) to...
Namibia 

Access to Information campaigners appeal against downgrading of World Bank’s Freedom of Information Programme

The African Platform on Access to Information (APAI) Working Group and other civil society organisations working on freedom of information around the globe have written to...

NUSOJ Decries Intimidation of Journalists in Northern Somalia

This statement was originally published on nusoj.org on June 1, 2016. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is deeply disturbed by the renewed the...

Ugandan Authorities Must Stop the Clamp Down On Online Media Platforms- AFEX

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is deeply concerned about the increasing disregard for freedom of expression rights both offline and online by...
Liberia 

West African Journalists Call For Isolation of Gambian President

Monrovia - The West African Journalists Association (WAJA) has declared the Gambia as the most hostile environment for journalists in the sub-region, as it...
Namibia 

The 1991 Windhoek Declaration: How Far have We come?

This Statement was originally published on whk25.misa.org. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2016, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), salutes all...

Access to Information in Africa- AFEX Urges Governments to do more

As the World marks Press Freedom Day today under the theme, “Access to Information and Fundamental Freedoms: This is your Right!”, the African Freedom...

Liberia experiencing downward trend in freedom of expression, information

This statement was originally published by the Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) on 17 March 2016. The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding,...
Uganda 

Uganda: Seven Journalists Attacked as Police and Army look on.

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on March 7, 2016. Rowdy supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters on March 04, 2016...
Ghana 

Issues not Insults: Language Monitoring Campaign Launched ahead of Ghana’s Elections

Issued by the MFWA on March 1, 2016. As Ghana’s 2016 elections draw closer and campaigning intensifies, political tensions are fast building up. Insults and...
Uganda 

Media clamp down as Police Arrest Six Journalists in Ugandan suburbs

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on February 29,  2016. Uganda Police has on Monday February 29, 2016, arrested a total of eight (8)...
Uganda 

Uganda: Journalists Targeted for Covering Political Campaigns

Issued by the HRNJ-Uganda on February 26, 2016. Human Rights Network for Journalists–Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) is a network of human rights journalists in Uganda working towards...
Eastern AfricaUganda 

Uganda Elections: AFP Journalist pepper-sprayed by Police

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on February 22, 2016. Agence France Presse, AFP journalist, Isaac Kasamani, has been pepper-sprayed by Uganda police, earlier...