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MRA calls on Nigerian government to implement ECOWAS Court judgment on blasphemy laws

Lagos, Wednesday, July 16, 2025: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to take urgent measures to implement and give full...
Ghana  Freedom of Expression Violations

MFWA condemns physical attacks against journalists covering parliamentary election

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns physical attacks against journalists reporting on the parliamentary election re-run taking place at Ablekuma North,...
Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

IPC decries threats against journalist; condemns invasion of radio station

For immediate release, February 3, 2025 The Safety and Protection of Journalists (SPJ) hub of the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos - Nigeria is...
Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

I-CSPJ calls for concerted efforts for the release of kidnapped journalists in northern Nigeria

IPC’s Centre for the Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ), Lagos-Nigeria is calling for a concerted effort towards the immediate release of Chairman of...
Nigeria 

IPC, CEMESO host experts on Nigeria’s electoral process

Lagos, Nigeria – June 24, 2024 The International Press Centre (IPC) and the Centre for Media and Society (CEMESO), will this week host concurrent events...
Guinea  Freedom of Expression Violations

MFWA condemns threats against journalist in Senegal

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the recent threats against journalist Sékou Jamal Pendessa, and urges the Guinean authorities to identify and...
Mali  Freedom of Expression Violations

Mali silences critics with harsh prison sentences

A court in Mali has handed a two-year prison sentence to Dr Etienne Fakaba Sissoko to crown two months of harassment of the economist...
Nigeria  Access To Information

MRA condemns abduction of journalist by police

LAGOS, Friday, May 24, 2024: Media Rights Agenda (MRA), today condemned as appalling and unacceptable, Wednesday’s abduction of Mr. Madu Onuorah, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief...
Gambia  Impunity

AFEX welcomes guilty verdict of former Gambian Minister 

On May 15, 2024, the Federal Criminal Tribunal a.k.a Federal Criminal Court (FCC) in Bellinzona, Switzerland, found Ousman Sonko, Former Interior Minister of The...
Liberia  Freedom of Expression

World Press Freedom Day 2024: CEMESP issues call to action

On World Press Freedom Day, the Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) released a poignant statement, echoing the sentiments of a nation grappling...
Nigeria  Access To Information

Media Support Groups Mark 2024 World Press Freedom Day, Urge Governments to Protect Media Freedom

LAGOS, Thursday, May 2, 2024: Four human rights and media support organizations have called on Federal and State Governments to take urgent measures to...
Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

Persistent harassment of Lanre Arogundade by state security constitutes systematic abuse of power and violation of his rights

For immediate release, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 The International Press Centre (IPC), hereby strongly registers its displeasure over yet another incident of harassment of its...
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