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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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Kenya  Freedom of Expression

AFEX urges the Kenyan government to help bring justice...

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Over a week has passed since six journalists were teargassed and assaulted by police in Nakuru, Kenya, while covering the arrest of former Kakamega...
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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...
Somalia  Attacks

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  Attacks

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...
Access To Information

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...
Uganda  Impunity

Uganda: Ruling Party Mobilisers are Remanded to Prison for Assaulting Journalists

This statement was originally published on hrnjugnada.org on August 9, 2016. Chaos broke out at Entebbe Magistrates Court on 8th August 2016 when five ruling...
Ghana  Impunity

Victory Against Impunity: Editor, Reporters Win Assault Case in Court

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on July 27, 2016. On June 27, 2016, a Human Rights Court in Ghana’s capital Accra, fined two...
Gambia  Attacks

The Gambia: 19 Persons Jailed for Demonstrating Without Permit

The statement was originally published on mfwa.org, on July 21, 2016. On July 20, 2016, a High Court in The Gambia capital Banjul, sentenced 19...
Attacks

AFEX Urges Sudanese Government to End Massive Crackdown on Free Speech

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is deeply concerned about the continued wave of attacks on freedom of expression in Sudan. Series of press...
Attacks

AFEX Demands Immediate Release of Detained Sudanese Students

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) demands Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) to immediately release the eight students who have been...
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