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AFEX Welcomes the Release of Journalist
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) has learnt with relief and satisfaction that Somali journalist Abdi Adan Guled, has been released after spending...
Uganda Attacks
Ugandan Newspaper Broken into, Robbed of Computers
This statement was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on October 17, 2016.
Unknown assailants broke into the premises of the Observer Newspaper at Plot 1Tagore Crescent,...
Somalia Attacks
Security Agents must Stop Harassing the Media in Somalia- AFEX
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), together with its member, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) urges Somali security forces to stop...
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...
Somalia Attacks
AFEX Calls on Somali Authorities to Investigate Murder of Journalist
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) and its member in Somalia, National Union Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) urges authorities in Somalia to investigate the...
South Sudan Censorship
AFEX Petitions South Sudan to Reopen Nation Mirror Newspaper
Why South Sudan Authorities Must Reopen Nation Mirror Newspaper
“Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that needs to be universally protected”, the Universal...
Tanzania Digital Rights
Freedom of Expression Online under Attack in Tanzania
Freedom of expression online is under attack in Tanzania as the Government abuses legal and judicial processes to suppress critical voices on the Internet,...
Somalia Attacks
NUSOJ Urges Somali Government to Act on UN Secretary General’s Report
This statement was originally published on www.nusoj.org on 18 September, 2016.
Alarming report by the UN Secretary General shows that intimidation and reprisals against civil...
South Sudan Censorship
AFEX Denounces Indefinite Closure of Private Newspaper in South Sudan
The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) and its member, the Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) denounce the indefinite closure of...
Uganda Attacks
Uganda: Police Interrogates Two Journalists over their Work
This statement was originally published on www.hrnjuganda.org on September 15, 2016.
Two journalists have been interrogated by the Crime Investigations and Intelligence Department of the...
Uganda Attacks
Uganda: Police ‘summons’ journalist over a Facebook post
This statement was originally published on www.hrnjuganda.org on September 1, 2016.
Police in Moroto District, North Eastern Uganda summoned a freelance journalist, Teba Arukol, over...
Somalia Access To Information
Intelligence and Security Agency raids Radio Station, Arrests Two Journalists
This statement was originally published nusoj.org on August 18, 2016.
The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) should immediately release two Radio Shabelle journalists, Ali...