Ghana

(MFWA/IFEX) – In two separate incidents, five journalists were assaulted by political party militants. On 1 August 2008, four journalists in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region of Ghana, were attacked by supporters of the country’s two main political parties while covering the ongoing voters’ registration exercise in the city. MFWA’s correspondent reported that […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 13 July 2008, Asafo Adjei Davidson, news editor of Success FM, a local radio station based in Goaso, a town in the Asunafo North Constituency in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana, was allegedly assaulted by a group of supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Davidson said he was slapped several […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 15 July 2008, Western Publications Limited, publishers of the “Daily Guide”, an Accra-based, privately-owned daily newspaper, filed a complaint with the head of the Ghana Police Service’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) regarding threats to the lives and security of its staff and property. The threats were received via anonymous telephone calls. This […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – Gina Ama Blay, publisher and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Western Publications Limited, publishers of the “Daily Guide”, an Accra-based pro-government daily newspaper, allegedly received threats on her life on 2 July 2008 by a caller who identified himself only as “Gajekpo” and claimed to be a soldier in the Ghana Armed Forces. […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 10 June 2008, Edmond Gyebi, a Northern Regional correspondent for “The Chronicle”, an independent Accra-based daily newspaper, was arrested and briefly detained in the office of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police over a live report he made on a radio station. MFWA’s correspondent reported that, at the time […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 1 June 2008, Samuel Ebo Bartels, sports reporter for Citi FM, an Accra-based independent radio station, was violently attacked by a group of police officers deployed at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city. A photojournalist who took pictures of the attack was also beaten by the same police […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 25 May 2008, Joe Okyere, a regional correspondent of the state-owned “Daily Graphic” newspaper, and Philip Baidoo, a reporter of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), were physically assaulted by security guards, allegedly on the orders of Isaac Edumadze, Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Eyan-Essiam Constituency of the Central Region of Ghana. The incident […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 2 May 2008, Ghana’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Joe Baidoo-Ansah, denied storming the studios of Metropolitan Television (Metro TV), an Accra-based TV station, to interrupt a live broadcast. He told Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) on the telephone that his attention was drawn to a live broadcast from a make-shift […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 24 April 2008, Joe Baidoo Ansah, Ghana’s Minister of Trade and Industry, interrupted a live-broadcast on Metropolitan Television (Metro TV), an Accra-based TV station, to register his displeasure about the inclusion of Nii Moi Thompson, an opposition spokesman, in the flagship programme “Good Evening Ghana”. Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) correspondent […]

Freedom of the Press 2007: Ghana

(MFWA/IFEX) – The crew of TV1, an Egyptian television station covering the ongoing 26th African Cup of Nations in Ghana, was on 25 January 2008 attacked by some players of the Desert Hawks, the Sudanese national team. The crew went to the hotel of the Sudanese team in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city, to preview […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – Two journalists of privately-owned Accra-based newspapers were violently attacked by armed policemen on the night of 19 January 2007. Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an investigative journalist for the “Crusading Guide”, and Halifax Ansah-Addo, reporter for the “Daily Guide”, were beaten, paraded alongside suspected criminals, and detained for about twenty minutes at the police headquarters, […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – A digital camera belonging to Fred J. A. Ibrahim, a Kumasi correspondent of the “Daily Guide”, a privately-owned Accra-based newspaper, was destroyed on 11 January 2008 by Yaw Amankwah, a photographer of Manhyia Palace, the official seat of the Asante Kingdom. A furious Amankwah insulted the journalist, seized his camera and ordered him […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – Ato Abban and Issac Nettey, camera operators with TV3 Network Limited, an independent Accra-based television broadcaster, were assaulted by police personnel on security duty at the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Special Delegates’ Congress at the University of Ghana on 22 December 2007. The Congress was in the process of electing the NPP’s […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 4 December 2007, Helen Abrokwa was reinstated as the head teacher of Padmore Street Primary School in Tema, in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The reinstatement came 10 weeks after she was demoted and transferred, allegedly for granting an interview to the media about low enrolment levels at her school. On […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is an abbreviated 30 November 2007 ARTICLE 19 press release: GHANA: ARTICLE 19 launches documentary calling for greater transparency of gold mining industry For the past two years, ARTICLE 19 has been involved in the production of the documentary “When Silence is Golden”, which focuses on the impact of gold […]