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Southern Africa 

World Press Freedom Day 2023: Statement by Media Institute...

Thus, the theme for this year’s World Press Freedom Day – Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of expression as a driver for all...
Nigeria 

World Press Freedom Day 2023: MRA Calls on Nigerian...

LAGOS, Wednesday, May 3, 2023: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on the Federal Government to ensure adequate protection for media freedom in law and...
Uganda 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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...

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 

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 

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...
Somalia 

New Report Exposes Pervasive Culture of Impunity in Somalia

Somali authorities have failed to successfully prosecute 92 percent of the cases of journalists murdered, revealed a new report, “Unseating Impunity: Justice for Somali...
South Sudan 

Authorities in South Sudan must Investigate Killings of Journalists

This statement was originally issued by AMDISS on October 4, 2016. The Association for Media Development In South Sudan (AMDISS), The Union of Journalists of...

AFEX Members Reaffirm Commitment to Digital Rights in Africa

Introduction The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) held its 4thAnnual General Meeting (AGM) in Grahamstown, South Africa, on August 31, 2016.  The AGM was...