From dictatorship to democracy: All eyes on The Gambia’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review
Ahead of The Gambia’s Universal Periodic Review, IFEX’s Regional Editor Reyhana Masters asks: What issues are at the top of civil society’s agenda?
Disrupting state surveillance, banning red berets, and suppressing dissension
September in Sub-Saharan Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
Punishments for protesters, penalties for popular (online) presences…
August in Sub-Saharan Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
Threats, violence, laws, and taxes: The many approaches to stifling access to information in Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni uses a tiered approach of intimidation, restrictive legislation and taxation to skilfully and successfully restrict access to information as well as sharing of information.
Hydara killers revealed, internet blockages lifted and mounting concern for media freedom in Tanzania
July in Sub-Saharan Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
Wave of shutdowns sweep through the continent and Tanzania dips further down rabbit hole of repression
June in Sub-Saharan Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – a month of accolades, reparation, arrests, shutdowns and an unsolved death
May in Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
UNESCO World Press Freedom Day 2019 – surreal, inspirational, thoughtful and imaginative
Reyhana Masters, IFEX’s Africa Regional Editor, attended the 2019 WPFD celebrations in Addis Ababa.
Benin’s internet shutdown, Bobi Wine arrested in Uganda, What’s Crap on WhatsApp and more
April in Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
An RTI win, scribbling schoolgirls released, regional bodies slam shutdowns and journalists jailed
March in Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
Militant insurgencies impact media freedom, fake news and elections, and more
February in Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
Commitment, perseverance, and ingenuity: Changing The Gambia’s climate of impunity
The campaign to counter the culture of impunity, repression and brutality under the rule of former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh is a story of commitment, perseverance and ingenuity pitted against a brutally repressive regime. Here’s how the Media Foundation for West Africa and the Gambia Press Union worked to tackle impunity, both under the Jammeh regime and under the democratically-elected government of Adama Barrow.
A darkness descending: personal stories from Zimbabwe’s internet shutdown
Misdiagnoses, missed operations, and the odd joke; Zimbabweans share how losing the internet affected them.
Death, shutdowns, crackdown and a glimmer of hope as Angola reviews penal code clauses in favour of LGBTQI rights
January in Africa: A roundup of key free expression news, based on IFEX member reports.
Africa in December: Electoral mayhem in the DRC, the violent suppression of seething Sudanese, and more
A roundup of key free expression news in Africa, based on IFEX member reports.
Free expression under assault in Uganda, freedom of assembly wins in South Africa, and fear a way of life for LGBTQI+ in Tanzania
A roundup of key free expression news in Africa, based on IFEX member reports.