Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Liberia

Liberia 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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...
Liberia 

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...