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Uganda  Impunity

Uganda: Court Sets Judgment Date for Journalists’ Assault Case

This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on March 3, 2017. Five ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party youths continued to defend themselves before the...
Uganda  Attacks

Uganda: Journalists Charged with Criminal Trespass, Released on Bond

This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on  February 23, 2017. Two journalists, Dean Lubowa Saava and Fidel Arinaitwe, were on 23rd February 2017, arrested...
Uganda  Free Expression and The Law

Uganda: Detained Reporter Released Without Charge

This statement was originally published on hrnjuganda.org on February 18, 2017 Police in Fort Portal has released without charge a Kabarole Research Centre (KRC) FM...
Somalia  Attacks

Somaliland Authorities Detain Independent Journalist

This statement was originally published on nusoj.org on February 15, 2017. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is astounded by the arrest and detention of...
Somalia  Attacks

AFEX Condemns Assault of Journalist by Police in Puntland

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins its member, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) to condemn the attack on journalist, Ahmed Mohamed Ali...
Somalia  Attacks

Somalia: Seven Journalists Wounded in Terrorist Attack

This statement was originally published on nusoj.0rg on January 25, 2017. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) on Wednesday expressed shock and disgust at...
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’...
South Sudan  Access To Information

AFEX Welcomes Reopening of Eye Radio in South Sudan

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) joins its member, the Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS), to welcome the reopening of...
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...
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  Access To Information

AFEX Petitions President Salva Kiir of South Sudan over Shutdown of the Nation Mirror Newspaper

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), a continental network of freedom of expression organisations in Africa, together with 120 individuals from 20 countries...
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