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Nigeria Attacks
Nigeria: Police Arrest Publisher of Online News Portal for Alleged Defamation
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 14, 2014.
Nigerian police have arrested Desmond Utomwen, publisher of FreshNews, an online journal, following a...
Gambia Censorship
The Gambia: Seven Foreign Journalists Expelled
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 17, 2017.
Seven journalists who had gone to The Gambia to cover the upcoming inauguration of...
Niger Attacks
Niger: Shirking Accountability – Municipal Authorities Ban Protest March against Maladministration
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 14, 2017.
The municipal authorities in Niamey have prohibited a demonstration planned by civil society in...
Nigeria Censorship
Nigeria: Journalists Barred from Abuja High Court
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 12, 2017.
Journalists who went to the Federal High Court in Abuja to cover a case...
Ghana Attacks
West Africa: Attacks by Security Personnel, Impunity for Crimes Remain Top Challenges to Free Expression Rights
This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on December 8, 2016.
Constant acts of physical attacks, and arbitrary arrests and detentions of journalists and other...
Ghana Free Expression and The Law
MFWA Continues to Monitor Hate Speech on Ghana’s Radio ahead of Elections
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has released its latest language monitoring report covering the month of September. During the month, a total...
Liberia Attacks
Liberia: Journalist Detained for Republishing Story on President of Equatorial Guinea
This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on September 20, 2016.
On September 15, 2016, Festus Poquie, a journalist and editor of New Democrat, in...
Guinea Attacks
MFWA Remembers Journalists, Others Killed in Guinea
This statement was originally published on www.mfwa.org on September 16, 2016.
Two years ago today, amidst the ravages of Ebola in Guinea, three journalists and...
Togo Attacks
Togo: Security Forces Brutally Suppress Peaceful Protest by Locals
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 29, 2016.
Scores of indigenes of a Togolese community protesting against the activities of a new...
Mauritania Attacks
Mauritania: 13 Anti-Slavery Activists Jailed
This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on August 25, 2016
Thirteen anti-slavery activists in Mauritania have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from...
Mali Digital Rights
Mali: Social Media Blackout
This statement was originally published by MFWA on August 19, 2016.
There has been a suspected social media shutdown in Mali since August 17, 2016.
Reports...
Mali Attacks
Mali: One Dead, Several Others Injured for Protesting Arrest of Radio Presenter
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 18, 2016.
One person is reported dead and several others injured after supporters of a popular...