Liberia
Liberia Safety of Journalists
World Press Freedom Day 2023: Statement by Centre for Media Studies and Peacebuilding
May 3, 2023
The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) extends warm sentiments to Journalists and media workers in observance of World Press Freedom...
Liberia Freedom of Expression Violations
CEMESP Condemns Violence Against Protesting Students
Monrovia, July 27, 2022: The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) has condemned in the strongest terms the violence meted out against protesting...
Liberia Access To Information
WPFD 2022: CEMESP Calls for Improved Media Safety Environment in Liberia
Monrovia, May 2, 2022: As the world celebrate Word Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2022, the Center for Media Studies and Peace Building...
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Press Freedom Situation in Africa- April- June 2021
Journalists killed, respectively in DRC, Somalia and Nigeria, Burkina Faso, including a social media activist in Ghana during the period of April-June 2021. This...
Liberia Digital Rights
CEMESP bemoans the Jailing of Opposition Politician over Facebook Posts
The Center of Media Studies and Peace-building (CEMESP) has deplored the jailing of key opposition politician Mo Ali over a Facebook post which it...
Liberia
State of Access to Information in Liberia
Liberia’s passage of the Freedom of Information Act 2010 was an epoch-making event as it signaled a clean break from the past that had...
Liberia
Liberia: COVID-19 Press Coverage Policy Hampering Work of Journalists
While Liberia has, so far, managed to save lives from the worst public health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent reduction of the...
Liberia Access To Information
How Liberia’s Coronavirus Misinformation Spread Far More than the Virus Itself
On March 16, 2020, the first coronavirus case in Liberia was confirmed; a government official, Mr. Nathaniel Blama who traveled from Switzerland tested positive. ...
Liberia
Eight Liberian Journalists Abused in Separate Incidents in One Month
Eight journalists in Liberia were assaulted, threatened or detained in separate incidents, three of them related to COVID-19 in the month of May 2020.
This...
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Court Places Stay Order On Popular Intellectual Forum In Liberia
A Magisterial Court in one of Liberia’s ideal counties has ordered a total shutdown of all activities at a famous intellectual exchange center in...
Liberia
Liberian Government Restricts movement of Journalists covering COVID-19
The Press Union of Liberia has accused the administration of former soccer legend George Weah of “restricting movement of journalists” in the ongoing fight...
Liberia
Liberian Government Threaten to Shutdown Media Outlets
Media institutions in Liberia risk closure and confiscation of their equipment for what the Liberian government described as spreading “misinformation and “disinformation”.
The threat by...