Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Within the past year, the government of Cameroon has shut down the internet in its attempt to clamp down on demonstrations in English-speaking regions of the country.

The MFWA and the Gambia Press Union are facilitating the process of engagements between the Gambian government and families of Deyda Hydara, Musa Saidykhan and Ebrima Manneh towards compliance with the judgments of the ECOWAS Court of Justice.

In the third such tragic incident in Nigeria since the beginning of 2017, unknown gunmen shot and killed Ikechukwu Onubogu, a journalist working with the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS).

In a major breakthrough in the long fight against impunity in The Gambia, officials revealed the government will comply with the rulings of the ECOWAS Court in three infamous cases of attacks against journalists.

Alice Nderitu, Zimbabwe’s clampdown on social media, newspaper shutdowns in Tanzania, Cameroon journalists released and more in our October round-up of news from Africa.

An 11 year-old boy was killed by security forces in Lomé on 18 October 2017. Three more people were also killed in Sokode, some 300 km north of Lomé, as security forces cracked down on opposition protests.

34 NGOs call on the government of Ghana to ensure its citizens’ right to access to information.

It has been six months since Baba Alpha, senior journalist with Bonferey TV in Niger, was arrested and detained before being later sentenced to two years in prison and temporarily stripped of his citizenship.