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Sierra Leone  Digital Rights

How Sierra Leone is Hiding Behind the Fight Against Cybercrime to Abuse Digital Rights

The Sierra Leonean government has introduced a Cyber Crime Bill (2020) in what it claims to be an attempt to tackle cybercrime and boost...
Benin  Digital Rights

Elections in Benin: AFEX Calls on Authorities to Keep the Internet Open and Secure

As the people of Benin head to the polls on April 11, 2021, in Benin, the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), is calling...
Liberia  Digital Rights

CEMESP bemoans the Jailing of Opposition Politician over Facebook Posts

The Center of Media Studies and Peace-building (CEMESP) has deplored the jailing of key opposition politician Mo Ali over a Facebook post which it...
Nigeria  Free Expression and The Law

Nigeria: Newspaper Sued, Threatened Over Critical Publication

A charity group, Al Bashar International Foundation based in Bauchi State, Nigeria, has sued the WikkiTimes Media Limited and three others for defamation over...
Gambia  Access To Information

GPU Begins Nationwide Sensitization on Access to Information, Media Self-regulation

The Gambia Press Union, with support from the British Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, is implementing a project aimed at strengthening ongoing efforts...
Nigeria 

Nigeria: MRA Calls on IGP to Order Arrest and Prosecution of Brother of State Governor for Attack on Journalist

LAGOS, Thursday, February 11, 2021: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to order the immediate arrest and...
Nigeria  Freedom of Expression Violations

Nigeria: IPC Urges Release of Kidnapped Journalist Chidiebere Onyia

The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos-Nigeria, is highly disturbed that yet another journalist has been kidnapped. The abduction at gun-point of Chidebere Onyia, a reporter...
Liberia 

State of Access to Information in Liberia

Liberia’s passage of the Freedom of Information Act 2010 was an epoch-making event as it signaled a clean break from the past that had...
Ghana  Freedom of Expression Violations

Ghana: Soldiers, Vigilantes Assault Media Crew at Mining Site

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the harassment and assault of a news crew from Kumasi-based LUV FM at a mining site...
Nigeria  Digital Rights

MRA Condemns Blocking of Three Websites Associated With #EndSARS Protests

Lagos, Tuesday, December 1, 2020: Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the apparent surreptitious blocking of three websites associated with the #EndSARS protests in...
Ghana  Freedom of Expression Violations

MFWA Petitions Ghana’s Immigration Authorities over Threats against Editor

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has petitioned the Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Kwame Asuah Takyi, over the conduct of...
Liberia 

Liberia: COVID-19 Press Coverage Policy Hampering Work of Journalists

While Liberia has, so far, managed to save lives from the worst public health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent reduction of the...
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