Senegal
Senegal Freedom of Expression Violations
Director of TV station stabbed
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns the brazen assault on Maïmouna Ndour Faye, director of the television station 7TV, and urges...
Senegal Safety of Journalists
MFWA collaborates with IPI to produce legal resource on Senegal
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has partnered with the International Press Institute (IPI) to produce a resource tool kit on the legal...
Senegal Digital Rights
9 dead, TV stations shut, internet disrupted in Senegal
Nine protesters have died, the internet has been disrupted and the signals of a pro-opposition television station temporarily cut as the conviction of Senegal’s...
Senegal
Journalist Pape Ale Niang rearrested
The Senegalese authorities have rearrested Pape Ale Niang, five days after the journalist was provisionally released from one month’s detention.
Niang, who is the owner...
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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...
Senegal
Senegalese Football Federation Refuses Accreditation to Online Media
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), condemns the denial of accreditation to Senegalese online media by the authorities of the Senegalese Football Federation...
Senegal
Un Journaliste Arrêté et Mis en Cause pour de Fausses Allégations
La gendarmerie sénégalaise a arrêté et traduit en justice un journaliste accusé d’avoir fait de fausses allégations contre la force paramilitaire.
Cheick Yerim Seck, ancien...
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Journalist Sacked over Suspected Coronavirus Infection, Another Sacked Over Coronavirus Report
Two journalists (from Senegal and Nigeria) have been sacked from their media outlets over coronavirus-related issues.
In Senegal, a journalist with Le Soleil newspaper, Fatou...
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“Radio is You”: Let Your Voice Be Heard – AFEX
On the occasion of this year’s World Radio Day, which is being celebrated under the theme “Radio is You,” members of the African Freedom...