Two Journalists Fined over Corruption Story, Another Interrogated over Facebook Post
Two journalists have been arrested, arraigned and fined CFA Francs 5 million (about US$ 8,600) each over a publication alleging corruption at the highest…
Two journalists have been arrested, arraigned and fined CFA Francs 5 million (about US$ 8,600) each over a publication alleging corruption at the highest…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned about the closure of Guinea Bissau’s public broadcasting channel, Radiotélévision Nationale de la Guinée-Bissau…
A political activist who was arrested and arraigned in court for reportedly teasing Guinea’s Prime Minister and opposing President Alpha Conde’s bid for a…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned about the increasing death toll from the serial protests that have rocked Guinea over…
On February 22, 2020, Alpha Ousmane Bah and Kossa Sow, who work with the news website Africaguinee.com and Espace FM radio, respectively, had gone to the…
Four fatalities have already been recorded in an alarming start to 2020, as Guinea and Nigeria began the year on the same repressive note…
On February 5, 2020, Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA), the statutory electronic communications licensing body, suspended the operations of Radio Tongu, a privately-owned station…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the arrest and interrogation of Daily Trust reporter Tunji Omirin by the military over a story on the…
Nigerian authorities must investigate the death of Alex Ogbu, who was killed during a police crackdown on Shiite Muslim protesters in Abuja on January 28,…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the recent crackdown in The Gambia and calls on the Gambian government to cease the attacks …
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has learnt with extreme sadness the killing of Maxwell Nashan, a journalist with the Federal Radio Corporation…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has appealed to the Ghana Police Service to give an update on the state of investigations into…