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Ghana  Access To Information

Issues not Insults: Language Monitoring Campaign Launched ahead of Ghana’s Elections

Issued by the MFWA on March 1, 2016. As Ghana’s 2016 elections draw closer and campaigning intensifies, political tensions are fast building up. Insults and...
Gambia  Attacks

MFWA, 36 Others Petition African Commission for Release of Detained Gambian Journalist

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and 36 other freedom of expression organisations in Africa and across the globe have petitioned the African...
Ghana  Attacks

MFWA’s Partner in Mali Mobilises Media to Search for Missing Journalist

The national partner of MFWA in Mali, la Maison de la Presse (MP) has mobilised the media in the country to work towards unraveling...
Ghana  Uncategorized

Ghana: Capacity of MFWA Staff Built on AFEX Network

Staff members of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) have received capacity building on the work of the African Freedom of Expression Exchange...
NigeriaUganda  Access To Information

UN, AU and civil society seek to intervene in Criminal Defamation case of a journalist.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Prof David Kaye; the Special...
Ghana  Access To Information

Media must fight against corruption, not just report on it – MFWA

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply worried that the overwhelming majority of the media in West Africa and specifically Ghana concentrate...
Liberia  Access To Information

Liberia: Cemesp Launches Report On Media Performance

The Center for Media Studies & Peace Building or CEMESP, in collaboration with the Press Union of Liberia has released a report on media...
Gambia  Attacks

Gambia: Authorities revoke permission for Al Jazeera staff, threaten them with arrests

A team of Al Jazeera journalists that went to Banjul to film and report on human-interest stories have been prevented from carrying out their...
Ghana  Access To Information

Empowering Citizens to Access Information: Transitional Countries Doing Better than Ghana

Several transitional countries in the West Africa region are doing better than Ghana in terms of demonstrating stronger commitment to transparent governance. A number of...
Nigeria  Attacks

MRA Condemns Arrest and Detention of Journalist, Calls for his Unconditional Release

LAGOS: Monday, August 31, 2015: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the arrest and continued detention of Nigeria-based Cameroonian journalist, Simon Ateba, by the...
Guinea  Attacks

Guinea: Journalist reported missing

Cherif Diallo, a reporter of Espace TV, a privately-owned satellite television station in Guinea, has been reported missing. Managers of Espace TV say Diallo was...
GhanaUgandaWest Africa  Access To Information

This Week in Africa:The week of 13 – 18 October

This Week in Africa The week of 13 – 18 October witnessed some free expression violations and challenges on the continent as reported by some...
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