Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

To mark International Womens’ Day 2022, the MFWA highlighted the obstacles that impede women from fully enjoying their digital rights and how these gender gaps could be narrowed.

The Media Foundation of West Africa’s board of directors has expressed deep concern at how the increasing attacks by terrorist groups in Sahel region, military coups and West African governments’ selective application of law is negatively impacting on human and media rights in the region.

Several members of IFEX have joined rights-based organisations in petitioning Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló to improve the media freedom landscape, and thoroughly investigate serious media rights violations and ensure the prosecution of the perpetrators.

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.

Guinea-Bissau journalist Maimuna Bari is currently in a coma, after sustaining spinal injuries following an attack on Rádio Capital FM by men in military uniform.

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