Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

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.

The disturbing range of violations in Sierra Leone propels media stakeholders and government into drawing up the Comprehensive Framework on the Protection of Journalists.

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

A Nigerian judge presiding over a libel case has the journalist covering the proceedings detained, then imprisons the defense lawyer for 30 days for questioning such conduct.

Even though Liberia is one of the first countries in Africa to have passed RTI legislation, journalists are frustrated by the numerous challenges they face in accessing information held by public bodies.

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 35-year-old Burkinabé man who produced an audio threatening prominent journalist Newton Ahmed Barry, is facing charges of hate speech and incitement through social networks.

‘Wikkitimes’ journalists Haruna Mohammed and Idris Kamal are arbitrarily arrested, after a politician files a complaint against the newspaper.