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AFEX condemns the unjust and excessive restriction of access...

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From May 20 to May 21, 2025, Tanzanians faced a wave of digital restrictions impacting their X accounts. This shutdown occurred without any official...
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Zambia  Digital Rights

Zambian government secretly weaponizes cybercrime law with intrusive add-ons

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On April 8, 2025, Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema signed into law the Cyber Crimes Act 2025,updating the 2021 version with rather very intrusive provisions. The...
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Freedom of Expression Violations

Uganda: Army officers arrest staff of television station

Kampala, 11th March, 2022; Security officers attached to Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) on 10th March 2022 raided the Alternative DIGITALK TV an Online...
Ghana  Attacks

Radio presenter risks losing hearing after brutal police assault

A group of police officers on February 3, 2022, brutally assaulted Eric Nana Gyetuah, a radio presenter with Connect FM based in Takoradi, capital...
Ghana  Attacks

MFWA condemns attack on Radio Ada, demands prosecution of perpetrators

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) roundly condemns the attack on the Radio Ada (93.3 FM), a community radio station in the Greater...
Somalia  Attacks

AFEX Condemns the Killing of a Journalist, Demands a thorough Investigation and Justice

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) has learned with dismay, the killing of Abdiaziz Mohamed Guled of Radio Mogadishu in a suicide attack...
Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

Another torrid October as #EndSARS one year memorials trigger a repeat of repression

Exactly one year after security forces unleashed deadly violence on protesters, killing a dozen on October 2020, the police in Nigeria have struck again,...
Africa  Attacks

Ending impunity for crimes against journalists: MFWA deplores slow pace of progress

As the world marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists today, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is calling governments and relevant...
Freedom of Expression Violations

Tanzania: Cartoonist arrested for insulting president

Tanzanian authorities have arrested a cartoonist over a cartoon that insinuated that President Samia Suluhu Hassan was being handheld by Jakaya Kikwete, a former...
Democratic Republic Of Congo  Freedom of Expression Violations

JED demands official apology from police chief after a brutal attack on journalist during an opposition demonstration

Journalist en Danger (JED) strongly condemns the assault perpetrated by security forces on the correspondent of the Radio France Internationale in Kinshasa, capital of...
Eswatini  Freedom of Expression Violations

AFEX Members, Other Press Freedom Groups Urge King of Eswatini to Guarantee Freedom of Expression

On 6 July 2021, the MISA Regional Governing Council chairperson, Golden Maunganidze wrote to His Royal Highness, King Mswati III to express MISA's concerns...
Africa  Access To Information

AFEX Calls on African Governments to Ensure Safety of Journalists, Respect Digital Rights

The Eighth General Meeting of the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), a network of African freedom of expression and media development organisations which...
Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

Nigeria: MRA Condemns Killing of Radio Presenter, Calls on Government to Apprehend and Prosecute Perpetrators

LAGOS, Monday, June 21, 2021: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the killing in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Saturday, June 19 of popular radio...
Nigeria  Digital Rights

Nigeria: MRA, IPC Condemn Federal Government’s Twitter Ban

Lagos, Monday, June 7, 2021:  Two non-governmental organizations, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the International Press Centre (IPC) today condemned the Federal Government’s indefinite...
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