President Samia Suluhu Hassan, has since assuming office, taken praiseworthy steps towards improving media freedom and the safety of journalists compared to her predecessor,...
For decades, journalists in Lesotho have craved a working environment that prioritizes their safety, but have only received lip services from politicians who only...
In the age of rapid digital expansion, internet freedom holds immense significance in shaping societies and empowering individuals. Within Ethiopia, a nation experiencing significant...
In this report, AFEX highlights the challenges to internet freedom in The Gambia and makes recommendations on how the situation can be improved.
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On June 5, 2021, the Nigerian government shut down the social media platform Twitter. Despite several condemnations from regional and global organisations, the Nigerian...
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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...
Since its inception, the right to information, even during crises, has always implicitly existed under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...
Africans use the internet for various purposes including for communication, entertainment, commerce as well as for the enjoyment of democratic rights such as access...
Uganda’s media landscape has since the early 1990s been liberalized with the proliferation of both print and electronic media outlets. Currently, the country is...