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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...
Guinea Attacks
Guinea: Police Bar Media from Court, Brutalise Reporter
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 15, 2016.
Anti-riot police on duty at a court in Conakry have beaten up a journalist...
Benin Attacks
Benin: Armed Policemen Raid Newspaper Office
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 15, 2016.
On August 11, 2016, about ten armed police officers in Benin raided the premises of...
Liberia Attacks
Liberia: Radio Station Shut Down
This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on August 14, 2016.
The government of Liberia has shut down privately-owned Radio LIB24.
The MFWA’s partner organisation in...
Ghana Attacks
Ghana: Sports Journalists Attacked by Football Fans
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 11, 2016.
Two journalists from Jem FM, a privately-owned radio station in the Ashanti Region of...
Mauritania Censorship
Mauritania: Authorities ban Media from Covering Arab League Summit
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 1, 2016.
The authorities in Mauritania barred about twelve journalists from covering the 27th Arab League...
Ghana Impunity
Victory Against Impunity: Editor, Reporters Win Assault Case in Court
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on July 27, 2016.
On June 27, 2016, a Human Rights Court in Ghana’s capital Accra, fined two...
Gambia Attacks
The Gambia: 19 Persons Jailed for Demonstrating Without Permit
The statement was originally published on mfwa.org, on July 21, 2016.
On July 20, 2016, a High Court in The Gambia capital Banjul, sentenced 19...
Mauritania Attacks
Mauritania: Journalist Jailed Three Years for Throwing Shoe at State Official
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org, on July 18, 2016.
A Magistrate’s Court in Nouakchott, Mauritania has sentenced a journalist to three years in...