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GPU urges police to drop charges against activist
(Banjul, The Gambia, 15 Nov., 2023) – The Gambia Press Union (GPU) is calling on the Gambia Police Force (GPF) to drop all charges...
Freedom of Expression
Charter on AI and Journalism launched
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in partnership with 16 other organisations on November 10, 2023 launched the inaugural Charter on AI and Journalism, which coincided...
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Freedom of Expression in Africa: 183 Killed by Security Agents in 3 Protests
A total of 183 deaths were recorded from July to December 2016 following clashes between protestors and security agents in three countries – Ethiopia,...
Uganda Attacks
Uganda: Business Woman Jailed One Year for Assaulting Journalist
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 15, 2017.
A business woman in Kayunga District, Naluwa Rose, has been convicted and sentenced to a one...
Gambia Impunity
Ending Impunity: Minister Apologises to Journalist
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on March 11, 2017.
Interior Minister of The Gambia, Mai Fatty has publicly apologised to Kebba Jeffang, the...
Uganda Impunity
Police Officer Convicted of Assaulting a Television Journalist
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 10, 2017.
The Chief Magistrates Court at Buganda Road has found the former Division Police Commander...
Uganda Impunity
Uganda: Journalists Decry Lenient Sentence of Police Officer
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on March 10, 2017.
The Chief Magistrates Court at Buganda Road has found the former Division Police Commander...
Uganda Impunity
Uganda: Court Sets Judgment Date for Journalists’ Assault Case
This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 3, 2017.
Five ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party youths continued to defend themselves before the...
Gambia Impunity
Ex-NIA Officials Charged for Murder of Former Opposition Politician
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on March 3, 2017.
The former Director General of the feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Yankuba Badjie, and...
Nigeria Impunity
Nigeria Update: Army Seeks Reconciliation with Abused Newspaper
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on March 1, 2017.
The Media Foundation for West Africa has learnt with satisfaction that the spokesman for...
Liberia Impunity
Liberia: Information Minister Apologises to a Reporter He Abused
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on February 10, 2017.
Liberia’s Information Minister, Eugene Lenn Nagbe, who abused Mrs. Estelle Liberty Kemoh, a reporter...
Attacks
Arrests/Detentions, Physical Attacks Threaten FOE Rights in West Africa
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 30, 2017.
Arrests and detentions as well as physical attacks on journalists and media houses were...
Ghana Attacks
West Africa: Attacks by Security Personnel, Impunity for Crimes Remain Top Challenges to Free Expression Rights
This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on December 8, 2016.
Constant acts of physical attacks, and arbitrary arrests and detentions of journalists and other...
Uganda Attacks
AFEX Welcomes Conviction of Prominent Politician over Assault of Female Journalist
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) and its member, the Human Rights Network for Journalists in Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) welcome the conviction of a...