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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...
Benin 

Benin: Armed Policemen Raid Newspaper Office

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 15, 2016.  On August 11, 2016, about ten armed police officers in Benin raided the premises of...
Liberia 

Liberia: Radio Station Shut Down

This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on August 14, 2016. The government of Liberia has shut down privately-owned Radio LIB24. The MFWA’s partner organisation in...
Ghana 

Ghana: Sports Journalists Attacked by Football Fans

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 11, 2016. Two journalists from Jem FM, a privately-owned radio station in the Ashanti Region of...
Uganda 

Uganda: Supporters of Inspector General of Police Assault Journalist

This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org August 10, 2016. A Bukedde newspaper journalist, Joseph Mutebi was 10th August, 2016 assaulted by  commercial (boda boda...
South Sudan 

Alfred Taban should be Released

Prominent South Sudanese journalist, Alfred Taban who was arrested by agents of the National Security Service (NSS) on July 16, 2016 has been charged...
South Sudan 

Twelve Days on, South Sudanese Journalist Still in Detention

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is dismayed at the continued detention of South Sudanese journalist, Alfred Taban who has been held by...
Uganda 

Police Detains Two Journalists, Assaults Three Others in Uganda.

This statement was originally published by hrnj-uganda on July 25, 2016. A Delta Television journalist Jamil Mukiibi was attacked by commercial motorcyclists (Bodaboda) as he...
Gambia 

The Gambia: 19 Persons Jailed for Demonstrating Without Permit

The statement was originally published on mfwa.org, on July 21, 2016. On July 20, 2016, a High Court in The Gambia capital Banjul, sentenced 19...
Uganda 

Court Sets Hearing Date for Criminal Defamation Case against Journalist

This statement was originally published by hrnj-uganda on July 21, 2016. The Magistrates Court in Lyantonde has today, 21st July 2016, set 28th July, 2016,...
Mauritania 

Mauritania: Journalist Jailed Three Years for Throwing Shoe at State Official

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org, on July 18, 2016. A Magistrate’s Court in Nouakchott, Mauritania has sentenced a journalist to three years in...
South Sudan 

Freedom of Expression: AFEX Urges South Sudan to Protect Rights of Journalists

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) writes to express grave concern about the recent crackdown on the media in South Sudan which has...
Lesotho 

Lesotho Times Journalist goes into Exile

This statement was originally published by misa.org on July 19, 2016. Lesotho Times newspaper reporter Keiso Mohloboli fled Lesotho on July 18, 2016, to the...