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#IWD2024: Inspiring women’s inclusion in Africa
Today, the world celebrates International Women’s Day 2024 under the theme of #InspireInclusion, which encourages the realisation of a gender-equal world free of bias,...
Africa
Access To Information
How AFIC is Building Transparency and Accountability Across Africa...
Transparency and accountability are fundamental pillars of good governance. Transparency ensures that government processes, decisions, and data are open and accessible to the public,...
Uganda Digital Rights
Uganda’s Social Media Tax Undermining COVID-19 Fight
Globally, in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), social media has played various roles, such as filling information vacuums and providing...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Police Arrest Six Journalists over Report on University
Police have arrested six journalists at Makerere University who had been invited to cover a story of foreign students who are still locked down...
Digital Rights
Liberian Police seize Journalist’s Phones and Demand Deletion of Live Video
Police in Monrovia have seized broadcast equipment belonging to the editor of the local daily and online publisher FrontPage Africa (FPA).
National security forces executing...
Benin Freedom of Expression Violations
MFWA, National Partners Petition ACHPR Special Rapporteur to secure the release of Beninois Journalist
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and its 15 National Partner organisations in West Africa have petitioned the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
MRA Calls on Nigerian Government to Ensure Safety, Release of Kidnapped Radio Presenter
Lagos, Wednesday, May 6, 2020: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned Monday’s abduction of Ms Chinenye Iwuoha, a presenter with the Pacesetter FM station...
NigeriaSenegal Freedom of Expression Violations
Journalist Sacked over Suspected Coronavirus Infection, Another Sacked Over Coronavirus Report
Two journalists (from Senegal and Nigeria) have been sacked from their media outlets over coronavirus-related issues.
In Senegal, a journalist with Le Soleil newspaper, Fatou...
Somalia Freedom of Expression Violations
AFEX Condemns Murder of Journalist in Somalia
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) condemns the murder of journalist Said Yusuf Ali, of privately-owned Kalsan TV in Mogadishu, Somalia.
On May 4,...
Freedom of Expression Violations
IPC Enjoins Government, Institutional Stakeholders to Ensure Safe Working Environment For Journalists and Media Practitioners
As the global society celebrates the World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) 2020, the International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos, has reminded the Nigerian government and...
Uganda Freedom of Expression Violations
Police Release Vision Group Journalist on Bond
Police in Kamuli released Gwebayanga Tom, a Vision Group Correspondent in Buyende district on 22nd April 2020 after spending a night in a police...
West Africa Freedom of Expression Violations
The Media and COVID-19 in West Africa (April 6 – April 12, 2020)
This week the world began to see a glimmer of hope with the steady reductionin the number of COVID-19 infections in the worst hit...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
Nigeria: IPC Flays Continuing Attacks on Journalists and the Media
The International Press Centre, Lagos has again decried the rising spate of assaults on journalists and the media by law enforcement and security agents...
West Africa Freedom of Expression Violations
Seizure and Destruction of Journalists’ Digital Tools: The Data Privacy and Censorship Implications
The Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) monitoring of freedom of expression violations in West Africa has established a growing trend of seizure and...