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Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

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

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

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

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

Niger: Shirking Accountability – Municipal Authorities Ban Protest March against Maladministration

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on January 14, 2017. The municipal authorities in Niamey have prohibited a demonstration planned by civil society in...
Ghana  Attacks

West Africa: Attacks by Security Personnel, Impunity for Crimes Remain Top Challenges to Free Expression Rights

This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on December 8, 2016. Constant acts of physical attacks, and arbitrary arrests and detentions of journalists and other...
Uganda  Attacks

Journalist Charged with abetting Terrorism for Taking Photographs of Soldiers

Joy Doreen Bbira, a Ugandan journalist working with KTN Television in Kenya, was on the evening of November 28, 2016 charged with ‘Abeting terrorism’...
Democratic Republic Of Congo  Attacks

AFEX Condemns Gruesome Murder of Journalist in DRC

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins its member, Journaliste en Danger (JED), to denounce the gruesome murder of journalist Marcel Lubala Kalala...
South Sudan  Attacks

AFEX Condemns Closure of Radio Station, Urges President Salva Kiir to Intervene

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins the Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) to strongly condemn the arbitrary closure of...
Uganda  Attacks

AFEX Welcomes Conviction of Prominent Politician over Assault of Female Journalist

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) and its member, the Human Rights Network for Journalists in Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) welcome the conviction of a...
Cameroon  Attacks

AFEX Condemns 10-year Jail Sentence of Three Civilians in Cameroon as “Travesty of Justice”

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), a continental network of African free expression and media rights organisations, condemns in the strongest terms the...
Somalia  Attacks

New Report Exposes Pervasive Culture of Impunity in Somalia

Somali authorities have failed to successfully prosecute 92 percent of the cases of journalists murdered, revealed a new report, “Unseating Impunity: Justice for Somali...
South Sudan  Attacks

AFEX Condemns Burglary of AMDISS Office, Urges Police to Investigate

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins its member, the Association for Media and Development in South Sudan (AMDISS) to strongly condemn the...
Uganda  Attacks

Ugandan Newspaper Broken into, Robbed of Computers

This statement was originally published by HRNJ-Uganda on October 17, 2016. Unknown assailants broke into the premises of the Observer Newspaper at Plot 1Tagore Crescent,...
Somalia  Attacks

Security Agents must Stop Harassing the Media in Somalia- AFEX

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), together with its member, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) urges Somali security forces to stop...
South Sudan  Attacks

Authorities in South Sudan must Investigate Killings of Journalists

This statement was originally issued by AMDISS on October 4, 2016. The Association for Media Development In South Sudan (AMDISS), The Union of Journalists of...
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