Ghana

Angered by remarks made by a politician during an interview, the Kumasi Traditional Council in the Ashanti Region of Ghana has ordered Oyerepa FM to suspend its operations.

The Ada Traditional Council send a letter outlining restrictions on Radio Ada, banning it from covering the Asafotufiami Festival, over the station’s alleged utterances against the chief, and coverage of the salt industry.

13 Fellows from Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been selected for the 2022 Next Generation Investigative Journalism Fellowship programme.

Senegal and Ghana’s sharp decline on the 2022 RSF World Press Freedom Index comes as an unwelcome shock, especially because the two countries were once at the forefront of freedom of expression on the African continent.

The violent confrontation between overzealous protesters and an equally heavy-handed police mars the first day of #AriseGhana protest in Accra.

Three men, reported to be supporters of Ghana’s ruling party, interrupt a live programme on Benya FM, brutally assaulting host Eric Blessing Eshun and producer Emmanuel Egyirfah.

Young journalists taking part in MFWA’s five-month intensive investigative journalism fellowship produced compelling content holding authorities to account in Ghana.

A Facebook post over the granting of a controversial mining concession leads to arrest of journalist Noah Dameh on charges of publishing false news.

Over the course of the last 5 months eight media houses in four countries have been attacked, in instances where 13 journalists and media workers have been assaulted and equipment destroyed.

Ghana’s Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, feels the constant effort by the MFWA and The Fourth Estate to ensure implementation of the RTI law is what keeps it alive.

The Media Foundation for West Africa has asked Ghana’s minister of defense to investigate the brutal assault and torture of investigative journalist Michael Aidoo by 2 soldiers.

Ghana’s democracy is being rattled by reckless conduct of the media, coupled with the Ghanaian government’s heavy handed response, points out Media Foundation for West Africa executive director Sulemana Braimah.

In a letter to President Nana Akufo-Addo, the executive director of Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, points out how the government’s “high level of intolerance and autocratic tendencies poses a threat to Ghana’s democracy.

Ghana’s Inspector General of Police promises to investigate the brutal attack on broadcast journalist Eric Nana Gyetuah by police officers.

In just 10 months, public interest journalism project – The Fourth Estate – has established itself as one of Ghana’s most trusted news sources.

Radio journalist Gabriel Korley Adjaotor was hospitalised after drunk assailants disrupted his show and attacked him.