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Court Grants MRA Permission to Challenge Regulator’s Refusal to Disclose Payment of License Fees by Broadcasting Stations
Lagos, Thursday, 6 October 2022: A Federal High Court in Lagos today granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA) leave to proceed with its Freedom of...
Burkina Faso Freedom of Expression Violations
MFWA urges leaders in Burkina Faso to uphold freedom of expression
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is concerned about the political turmoil in Burkina Faso following a second coup d’état in the country...
Ghana
How journalism got Ghanaian Judges, MPs running to declare assets
There is an ongoing scramble by justices of Ghana’s superior courts and Members of Parliament to make known their personal worth to the Auditor...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
Nigeria: Temporary Reprieve as Regulator Suspends Shutdown of Broadcast Stations
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has temporarily suspended its intention to shutdown indebted broadcast stations in the country.
The regulatory agency in a statement it...
West Africa Freedom of Expression Violations
Terror attacks in the Sahel: Media actors from 16 countries demand action
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and its partner organisations in all the 16 countries in West Africa have expressed deep concern about...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
Nigeria: Regulator’s Fine on Trust TV Arbitrary and Unacceptable
For Immediate Release, Wednesday August 3, 2022
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria is miffed that the National Broadcasting Commission has slammed a hefty fine...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
IPC Condemns Government’s Threats Against the Media
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos Nigeria is worried by the recent utterances by the Federal Government of Nigeria threatening to sanction the BBC...
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...
Nigeria Digital Rights
Nigeria: Media Rights Agenda, Others Win Suit over Twitter Ban
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has ruled that the indefinite suspension of access to Twitter in Nigeria by Federal Government in June 2021...
Gambia Freedom of Expression Violations
Gambia: GPU Condemns Arbitrary Arrest of Journalist Yusef Taylor
Fajara, 7 July, 2022 – The Gambia Press Union (GPU) has received official reports that on the 5th of July 2022, Yusef Taylor, a...
Ghana
Ghana: MFWA condemns violent scenes at ‘Arise Ghana’ protests
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the various acts of violence that marred the anti-government demonstration in Accra on June 28, 2022,...
Ghana Digital Rights
Ghana: MFWA welcomes justice for victim of sexual extortion
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the justice served by a court in Accra, Ghana, by jailing a phone repairer for sexual...