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Citizens Voices Grow Online Despite Repressive Environment: State of Internet Freedom in Africa
Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, 26 June, 2018: Countries across Africa continued to witness progressive deterioration in the online environment in 2017 as a result of...
Somalia Attacks
AFEX Welcomes Somaliland’s Release of Journalists, Urges Government to End Ongoing Press Freedom Violations
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) welcomes the reopening of privately-owned SOMNEWS TV station and the release of a detained journalist and a...
Somalia Attacks
Prominent Rights Groups Call on Somaliland President to Intervene in Deteriorating Freedom of Expression Situation
Fifteen leading human rights organisations that seek to promote freedom of expression rights in Africa have called on the President to Somaliland, a self-declared...
KenyaTanzaniaUgandaZambia
Constricting Cyberspace: African Governments Target Social Media Users in New Laws
Increasingly, governments across the African continent are intentionally adopting laws and policies aimed at limiting citizens’ rights online. The end to this phenomenon does...
Uganda Digital Rights
Ugandan Government Taxes Social Media Users, Threat to Internet Rights
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) has learnt with disappointment the passage of the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2018 which seeks to tax...
Uganda
Ugandan Government Taxes Social Media Users, a Threat to Internet Rights
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) has learnt with disappointment the passage of the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2018 which seeks to tax...
Uganda Digital Rights
Ugandan Government Taxes Social Media Users, Threat to Internet Rights
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) has learnt with disappointment the passage of the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2018 which seeks to tax...
Somalia
AFEX Denounces Increased Attacks on Online Expression in Somaliland
Authorities in Somaliland should refrain from harassing journalists and individuals for exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of expression online. The African Freedom of...
Somalia Digital Rights
AFEX Denounces Increased Attacks on Online Expression in Somaliland
Authorities in Somaliland should refrain from harassing journalists and individuals for exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of expression online. The African Freedom of...
Somalia Free Expression and The Law
Update: Jailed Somaliland Poet and Activist Granted Presidential Pardon
Somaliland president, Muse Bihi has ordered the release of Naima Ahmed, a young poet and activist who was sentenced to three years in prison.
According...
Somalia Attacks
Violation of Freedom of Expression Rights: Somaliland Jails Activist, Citizen
A provincial court in Hargeisa, a city in Somaliland, Somalia’s self-declared republic has sentenced an activist and a civilian to three years and 18...
Tanzania
Tanzania’s Newly Adopted Electronic and Postal Communication Code is Retrogressive and an Affront to Free Speech – AFEX
Despite several calls by civil society and international bodies urging the government of Tanzania to revise or withdraw portions its Electronic and Postal Communications...