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Senegal Freedom of Expression Violations
Director of TV station stabbed
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns the brazen assault on Maïmouna Ndour Faye, director of the television station 7TV, and urges...
Sierra Leone Freedom Of Assembly
ECOWAS Court orders Sierra Leone to compensate student victim of police crackdown
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Republic of Sierra Leone to pay $25,000 as compensation to Mohamed Morlu, a Sierra Leone citizen,...
Senegal Safety of Journalists
MFWA collaborates with IPI to produce legal resource on Senegal
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has partnered with the International Press Institute (IPI) to produce a resource tool kit on the legal...
Ghana Impunity
Five years on: MFWA calls for an end to impunity over Ahmed Suale’s murder
Ahmed Suale, a member of the Tiger Eye PI investigative that produced the expose on corruption in African football, was gunned down by unknown...
West Africa Regional Development
ECOWAS and MFWA Sign Partnership Agreement
On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) signed a historic...
Benin Freedom of Expression Violations
Nigerian Journalist Arrested in Benin Faces up to 20 years in Jail
The authorities in Benin should release journalist Damilola Ayeni, drop the “jihadist” accusation against him and ensure his safe return to Nigeria without any...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
MFWA calls on Nigerian President to reverse predecessor’s poor freedom of expression record
On May 29, 2023, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over from President Muhammadu Buhari as the new helmsman in Nigeria’s presidency. Even though the...
Senegal Digital Rights
9 dead, TV stations shut, internet disrupted in Senegal
Nine protesters have died, the internet has been disrupted and the signals of a pro-opposition television station temporarily cut as the conviction of Senegal’s...
Ghana Freedom of Expression Violations
Media coalition in Ghana calls for repeal of false publication laws
The Media Foundation of West Africa (MFWA) with three other media organisations has called on the government of President Nana Akufo-Addo to annul aspects...
Nigeria Freedom of Expression Violations
Clampdown on press freedom and freedom of expression ahead of Nigeria’s election
Nigeria will hold its seventh general elections in the democratic era in February 2023 with the build-up to the polls proving ominous for the...
Senegal
Journalist Pape Ale Niang rearrested
The Senegalese authorities have rearrested Pape Ale Niang, five days after the journalist was provisionally released from one month’s detention.
Niang, who is the owner...