Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

The Media Foundation for West Africa is suing Ghana’s National Communications Authority for charging a prohibitive fee to process an information request.

Four months on, Nigerian authorities have yet to account for the death of 20 year-old journalist Pelumi Onifade, who was attacked and carried away by security forces while covering an #EndSARS protest.

Togolese journalists Charles Kponwadan, Anani Vidzraku and Romuald Lansou were arrested for interviewing a prominent government critic without authorization.

The bi-weekly “L’Alternative” has been suspended for 4 months by Togo’s media regulator for what it terms the “publication of false information”.

Authorities in Guinea-Bissau must probe an attack by security forces on journalist Souleymane Seidy and civil society activist Franique Da Silva, as police censor criticism of school closures.

Online rights are under threat in Mauritiania as authorities detain freelance jouranalist Mohamed Salem Kerkoub and threaten bloggers Mohamed Haibeitna Delchoul and Bilal Abdarrahmane for assisting him.

Ghana Armed Forces have pledged to investigate the harassment of a news crew by military officers at a mining site in the mineral-rich Ashanti region.

Three photojournalists – Olatunji Obasa, Olu Aremo and Mudashiru Atanda – were harassed and assaulted by police, while reporting on the chaotic roll out of Nigeria’s mandatory linking of SIM cards with national identification numbers.