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Ghana: MFWA Welcomes High Court Ruling on Personal Data Collection by Government

A High Court in Ghana has ordered the state agency, National Communications Authority (NCA), to stop collecting personal information from mobile phone subscribers. The...
Ghana  Access To Information

Ghana: RTI Commission Quashes Exorbitant Fees by State Agency

Ghana’s Right to Information (RTI) Commission has delivered what many consider as a milestone decision that signals the Commission’s commitment to ensure an effective...
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Press Freedom Situation in Africa- April- June 2021

Journalists killed, respectively in DRC, Somalia and Nigeria, Burkina Faso, including a social media activist in Ghana during the period of April-June 2021. This...
Gambia  Access To Information

Gambia Press Union Welcomes the Passing of Access to Information Bill 2021

The Gambia Press Union and the Civil Society Coalition on Access to Information welcome the passing of the Access to Information Bill 2021 by...
Gambia  Access To Information

Media Rights Agenda, Goodluck Jonathan Foundation Commend Gambia’s National Assembly for Passing Access to Information Bill into Law

Friday, July 2, 2021:  The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF) and Media Rights Agenda (MRA) have commended The Gambia’s National Assembly for passing the country’s...
Nigeria  Digital Rights

MFWA salutes court order restraining Nigerian government from prosecuting Twitter users

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the ruling by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja on June 22, 2021, in which...
Nigeria 

Nigeria: MRA Condemns Killing of Radio Presenter, Calls on Government to Apprehend and Prosecute Perpetrators

LAGOS, Monday, June 21, 2021: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the killing in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Saturday, June 19 of popular radio...
Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

Nigeria: MRA Condemns Killing of Radio Presenter, Calls on Government to Apprehend and Prosecute Perpetrators

LAGOS, Monday, June 21, 2021: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the killing in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Saturday, June 19 of popular radio...
Ghana  Access To Information

Ghana RTI Court case: MFWA Disappointed at Ruling

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has received with disappointment the ruling on June 17, 2021 by the Human Rights Division of the...
Nigeria 

Nigeria Twitter Ban: Government Should Discontinue Course of Action

The Institute for Media and Society, IMS, has observed with great concern, the suspension imposed on Twitter, the micro blogging and social networking platform....
Nigeria  Digital Rights

Nigeria: MRA, IPC Condemn Federal Government’s Twitter Ban

Lagos, Monday, June 7, 2021:  Two non-governmental organizations, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the International Press Centre (IPC) today condemned the Federal Government’s indefinite...
Gambia  Freedom of Expression Violations

The Gambia: GPU Condemns Physical Assault of Journalist by State House Photographer

The Gambia Press Union (GPU) condemns in the strongest terms the physical assault on a reporter for the online platform, Kerr Fatou, by President...
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