Articles by Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Newspaper editors receive death threats
(MFWA/IFEX) – Egbert Faibille, managing editor of “The Ghanaian Observer”, a tri-weekly, Accra-based privately-owned newspaper, has reported to security authorities that he has been the recipient of frequent death threats. Faibille said that the most recent threats came to him in the form of Short Message Service (SMS) messages to his mobile phone on 12 […]
Newspaper, editor fined for defaming minister
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 9 February 2007, an Accra High Court ordered Militant Publications, publishers of “The Insight”, a tri-weekly independent newspaper, and its acting editor, Peter Kojo Apisawu, to pay a fine of 120 million cedis (approx. US$13,043) for defaming Ghana’s minister for water resources, works and housing, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang. The court, presided over by […]
Journalist killed, two media workers wounded in shooting attack
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 9 February 2007, two unknown assailants shot and killed news editor, Samuel Enin, from Ash FM, a local radio station based in Kumasi, the second largest city in Ghana. Enin was also the Ashanti Regional chairman of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA). Two others, Kojo Fosu, who is a driver at the […]
Legislators threaten to bar radio stations from covering parliamentary sessions
(MFWA/IFEX) – Some members of Liberia’s lower house of Parliament, opposing the leadership of Speaker Edwin Snowe on 23 January 2007, threatened to bar two independent FM stations and a pro-government radio station from covering their sessions. Star Radio and Radio Veritas, two independent, Monrovia-based stations and Truth FM, a pro-government radio station, were accused […]
Suspended radio station resumes broadcast
(MFWA/IFEX) – Radio Victoire, a privately-owned FM station in Lomé, that was suspended for 15 days by the media regulator, Haute Autorité de l’Audiovisuel de la Communication (HAAC), on 24 January 2007, resumed operations after serving the full term of the suspension. On 9 January, HAAC suspended the radio station for an alleged professional misconduct. […]
Court exonerates newspaper in another civil defamation case
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 23 January 2007, a High Court in Accra threw out charges against Western Publications, publishers of the “Daily Guide”, a pro-government daily newspaper, its managing editor, Gina Blay, and news editor, Abdul Rahman Gomda, accused of defamation by an opposition politician, Charles Kofi Wayo. The court, presided over by Justice Iris Brown, […]
Former first lady appeals verdict that exonerated journalists in civil defamation case
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 12 December 2006, the former First Lady of Ghana, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, appealed against an Accra High Court ruling that exonerated Western Publications Limited, publishers of the privately-owned “Daily Guide” newspaper, managing editor Gina Blay, and former deputy editor Ebenezer Ato Sam of defamation. According to Nana Agyeman Rawlings, the trial […]
Office of Attorney General seeks extradition of three people implicated in editor’s death
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 18 January 2007, the Office of the Attorney General instructed the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to officially ask the British government to extradite three siblings implicated in the murder of Harry Yansaneh, editor of the independent newspaper “For Di People”, a year and a half ago. Ahmed Komeh, Bai Bureh Komeh […]