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Nigeria  Free Expression and The Law

MRA calls on Nigerian government to implement ECOWAS Court...

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Lagos, Wednesday, July 16, 2025: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to take urgent measures to implement and give full...
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Ghana  Freedom of Expression Violations

MFWA condemns physical attacks against journalists covering parliamentary election

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The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns physical attacks against journalists reporting on the parliamentary election re-run taking place at Ablekuma North,...
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Somalia  Attacks

AFEX Calls on Somali Authorities to Investigate Murder of Journalist

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) and its member in Somalia, National Union Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) urges authorities in Somalia to investigate the...
Democratic Republic Of Congo  Attacks

AFEX Decries Police Brutality against Protesters in DRC

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is deeply appalled by the brutality of the Congolese police against peaceful demonstrators in the Democratic Republic...
Liberia  Attacks

Liberia: Journalist Detained for Republishing Story on President of Equatorial Guinea

This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on September 20, 2016. On September 15, 2016, Festus Poquie, a journalist and editor of New Democrat, in...
Somalia  Attacks

NUSOJ Urges Somali Government to Act on UN Secretary General’s Report

This statement was originally published on www.nusoj.org on 18 September, 2016. Alarming report by the UN Secretary General shows that intimidation and reprisals against civil...
Guinea  Attacks

MFWA Remembers Journalists, Others Killed in Guinea

This statement was originally published on www.mfwa.org on September 16, 2016. Two years ago today, amidst the ravages of Ebola in Guinea, three journalists and...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Police Interrogates Two Journalists over their Work

This statement was originally published on www.hrnjuganda.org on September 15, 2016. Two journalists have been interrogated by the Crime Investigations and Intelligence Department of the...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Police ‘summons’ journalist over a Facebook post

This statement was originally published on www.hrnjuganda.org on September 1, 2016. Police in Moroto District, North Eastern Uganda summoned a freelance journalist, Teba Arukol, over...
Togo  Attacks

Togo: Security Forces Brutally Suppress Peaceful Protest by Locals

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 29, 2016. Scores of indigenes of a Togolese community protesting against the activities of a new...
Mauritania  Attacks

Mauritania: 13 Anti-Slavery Activists Jailed

This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on August 25, 2016 Thirteen anti-slavery activists in Mauritania have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from...
Mali  Attacks

Mali: One Dead, Several Others Injured for Protesting Arrest of Radio Presenter

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 18, 2016. One person is reported dead and several others injured after supporters of a popular...
Guinea  Attacks

Guinea: Police Bar Media from Court, Brutalise Reporter

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 15, 2016. Anti-riot police on duty at a court in Conakry have beaten up a journalist...
Somalia  Attacks

NUSOJ Denounces Judicial Harassment of Journalists and Independent Media in Somaliland

This statement was originally published on NUSOJ on 15 August 2016. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns concerted attempts by Somaliland authorities...
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