Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

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.

AFEX has denounced the brutality of Cameroon’s security forces against unarmed civilians, reportedly killing 12 people and injuring many more in the country’s English-speaking regions, as well as the government’s decision to shut down the internet for the second time this year amidst protests.

Thirty-four FM broadcasting stations have been shut down by the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Communications regulator and radio frequency licensing body in Ghana.