Center for Media Studies & Peace Building (CEMESP)

In the resolution, the ACHPR “strongly condemns the serious violations of the right to life committed against journalists and media practitioners” and appeals for “the immediate cessation of harassment and intimidation aimed at independent media organisations” in Somalia.

Mr. Costa was placed behind bars at the Monrovia Central Prison on March 21, 2014 after his team of lawyers could not secure a bond for his release. Mr. Costa has been charged with terroristic threats, menacing and criminal coercion.

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange condemns the 27-year sentence imposed on Mohamed Aweys Mudey and notes that the Ethiopian media environment is characterized by the arrest of journalists.

Liberia’s popular radio talk show host – Henry Costa, of the Costa Show – has finally parted ways with the management of Hott FM over what he termed as “persistent interference from the government by the management of the station over the show’s content”.

After a series of increasingly violent events, IFEX members and supporters call on Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying to take clear and deliberate steps to defend press freedom.

The African Freedom of Expression Exchange, a network of organisations who are also IFEX members, has deplored the current state of attacks, arrests, and harassments meted out to journalists in many countries on the continent, especially in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Somalia.

195 civil society organisations from around the world have called on the UN to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.

Councillor Christiana Tah, Minister of Justice and Dean of the Supreme Court of Liberia, and FrontPage Africa newspaper Lawyer Councillor Beyan Howard have been suspended for six months. The Supreme Court claims that on 7 October 2013, Minister Tah released journalist Rodney Sieh from prison “without any legal reference or deference to the court”.