On November 19, 2020, Fayia Amara Fayia, an investigative journalist with the Standard Times newspaper, appeared in court for the tenth time to respond to…
It has been 51 days since the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) formally wrote to the National Communications Authority (NCA) to request for…
On July 22, 2020, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) filed an Access to Information request to the National Communications Authority (NCA), the…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has set up a Fund to support journalists who will require media defence. While the gradual democratisation…
The media regulator in Benin, Haute Autorite de l’Audiovisuel et de la Communication (HAAC) has closed down a private radio station owned by a…
The Media Foundation for West Africa, (MFWA) considers as a dangerous precedent the storming of a courtroom by officers of the Department of State…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned about violence perpetrated against journalists covering recent demonstrations in Guinea and urge state security…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has learnt with great concern the closure of two radio stations by the Haute Autorité de la…
On October 22, 2019, a court in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, sentenced five civil society leaders to between six months and one-year jail terms, in…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) considers the detention of two Al Jazeera journalists and the withdrawal of their accreditation as an attack…
Ahead of a demonstration organised by the Front National pour la Defence de la Constitution (FNDC), police officers in Guinea have arrested over a…
The police in Nigeria have detained the Chief Editor of the Order Paper, following a criminal complaint lodged by an influential politician over an…
