Articles by Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Minister orders arrest of several newspaper journalists
Abdul Rahman Kamara, Razrok Wurie, Sheik Unisa Thoronka and Alfred Koroma have been released on bail.
Court convicts police officer for assaulting journalists
One of four police officers charged with assaulting two sports journalists in 2008 was given a one-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay damages.
Journalists’ rights advocates engage Gambian government on media situation
“We put before the minister our concerns for the need to reform all repressive laws and their provisions, as these are inimical to press freedom,” said the NUSOJ delegate.
African free expression community charts new course in struggle for safety and rights of journalists
For the first time in the history of the NGO Forum meeting preceding the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, a distinguished panel on freedom of expression and protection of journalists was convened.
Online journalist held incommunicado, violently assaulted
Thierno Souleymane Diallo was violently assaulted and detained by members of the red berets after he photographed their brutal assault on a taxi driver in Conakry.
Thirty-eight IFEX members make recommendations to improve freedom of expression at Honduras’s UPR
In support of the IFEX-Latin America and the Caribbean (IFEX-ALC) mission to the Honduras UPR in Geneva, IFEX members provided recommendations regarding the country’s freedom of expression record.
Thirty-one IFEX members and 25 other groups call on the President of Puntland to respect freedom of expression
Since Abdirahman Mohamed Farole became president on 11 January 2009, journalists have been arrested, physically assaulted, suspended, censored and even killed, and the operations of news media organisations have been threatened, closed or restricted.
Thirty-three IFEX members call for freedom of expression during historic elections
IFEX members called on the Burmese government and the governments of the ASEAN to ensure freedom of expression, access to information, democratic values and human rights are respected during this critical moment in the electoral history of Burma.