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Nigeria 

IPC decries threats against journalist; condemns invasion of radio...

For immediate release, February 3, 2025 The Safety and Protection of Journalists (SPJ) hub of the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos - Nigeria is...
Africa 

Amplifying the Resolution on the Protection of Women Against...

Two and a half years after the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) adopted the Resolution on the Protection of Women Against...

Ugandan Authorities Must Stop the Clamp Down On Online Media Platforms- AFEX

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is deeply concerned about the increasing disregard for freedom of expression rights both offline and online by...
Liberia 

West African Journalists Call For Isolation of Gambian President

Monrovia - The West African Journalists Association (WAJA) has declared the Gambia as the most hostile environment for journalists in the sub-region, as it...
Namibia 

The 1991 Windhoek Declaration: How Far have We come?

This Statement was originally published on whk25.misa.org. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2016, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), salutes all...

Access to Information in Africa- AFEX Urges Governments to do more

As the World marks Press Freedom Day today under the theme, “Access to Information and Fundamental Freedoms: This is your Right!”, the African Freedom...

Liberia experiencing downward trend in freedom of expression, information

This statement was originally published by the Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) on 17 March 2016. The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding,...
Uganda 

Uganda: Seven Journalists Attacked as Police and Army look on.

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on March 7, 2016. Rowdy supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters on March 04, 2016...
Ghana 

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...
Uganda 

Media clamp down as Police Arrest Six Journalists in Ugandan suburbs

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on February 29,  2016. Uganda Police has on Monday February 29, 2016, arrested a total of eight (8)...
Uganda 

Uganda: Journalists Targeted for Covering Political Campaigns

Issued by the HRNJ-Uganda on February 26, 2016. Human Rights Network for Journalists–Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) is a network of human rights journalists in Uganda working towards...
Eastern AfricaUganda 

Uganda Elections: AFP Journalist pepper-sprayed by Police

This Alert was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on February 22, 2016. Agence France Presse, AFP journalist, Isaac Kasamani, has been pepper-sprayed by Uganda police, earlier...

AFEX Marks World Radio Day

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) and its members across the continent join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and...