Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

The Media Foundation for West Africa and 15 partner organisations have written to the ACHPR Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information to intervene in the case of imprisoned Beninese journalist Ignace Sossou.

Ibrahim Wala, activist and convenor of an anti-corruption group, was released as part of an amnesty granted to some 2,600 prisoners across Nigeria in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The spread of the Coronavirus across the African continent correlates with an increase in incidents of intimidation and attacks on the media covering the pandemic.

Six journalists and two managing editors have been heavily fined in separate cases in just over a month in Côte d’Ivoire.

Security forces in Guinea have acted with impunity and blatant disregard of human rights by arresting and indiscriminately killing protestors over the last 9 months.

Mali’s Human Rights Commission condemns the security services’ attack on teachers marching to demand better service conditions and has called on the government to respect the right to peaceful assembly.

French journalist Thomas Diétrich was deported, his accreditation was withdrawn by the media regulatory body Haute Autorite de la Communication (HAC), and his visa revoked by Guinean authorities.

Polling day passed the benchmark for peace and calm during voting, but failed dismally on the digital rights scorecard when Togo shut off the internet.