Ghana

The Media Foundation for West Africa provides its take on the annual press briefing more familiarly known as the Presidential Media Encounter.

In responding to a fellow cleric during a radio interview, a pastor lost his temper, insulted and abused the interviewer and damaged studio property.

Accra’s Human Rights Court has uphelds journalist Ohemaa Sakyiwaa’s right to file an assault case against her attack by a member of Ghana’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Over the last two weeks in May, two journalists and a civil society activist were verbally abused and threatened while on assignment.

The Ghanaian Police Service has initiated an investigation into the assault on four journalists during a demonstration at the headquarters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) prompted by the Media Foundation of West Africa.

In a report published at the end of January 2018, MFWA found online harassment to be one of the major challenges facing women in the Ghanaian online space.

World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) presents a major opportunity for the government of Ghana to showcase Ghana’s democratic ideals to the world. It would therefore be extremely embarrassing for Ghana not to have in place a Right to Information (RTI) Law – one of the cardinal pieces of legislation that advances democracy and human rights.

The MFWA has petitioned the National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, over the brutal assault by the party’s security officers on journalists which occurred at the party’s National Headquarters in Accra, Ghana.

The Media Foundation for West Africa condemns the attack on four journalists and a driver by vigilantes of the New Patriotic Party in Accra, and wishes to call on the party’s leadership to ensure swift punishment for the perpetrators.

On 2 December 2017, thugs stormed Radio Justice’s studios in Tamale, Ghana, and assaulted a presenter and three panelists.

34 NGOs call on the government of Ghana to ensure its citizens’ right to access to information.

Thirty-four FM broadcasting stations have been shut down by the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Communications regulator and radio frequency licensing body in Ghana.

An Accra High Court has ordered the publishers of the Daily Post newspaper and its editor, Michael Dokosi, to pay an amount of GHC 800,000 (US$180,000) to a former Minister of State.

In recognition of his documentary that prompted action on the devastating maternal and child mortality situation in Ghana’s second largest medical facility, the MFWA has named Seth Kwame Boateng as the first winner of its Journalist of the Month series.

The Media Foundation for West Africa met with Ghana’s Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms. Otiko Afisa Djaba at her office to discuss ways of promoting women’s rights online.

Freelance journalist Kendrick Ofei alleges he was attacked after filming soldiers who were beating a civilian behind Independence Square, in Accra, Ghana.