Court of Appeal Releases Jailed Civil Society Activists
A Court of Appeal in Conakry on November 28, 2019, conditionally released ten members of the political pressure group, Front National pour la Defense…
A Court of Appeal in Conakry on November 28, 2019, conditionally released ten members of the political pressure group, Front National pour la Defense…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply concerned about violence perpetrated against journalists covering recent demonstrations in Guinea and urge state security…
At least two protesters have been killed in clashes between security forces and a cortege accompanying the coffins of eleven people killed in a…
Two days after an attack on a funeral procession led to two deaths among the mourners, security forces in Guinea have killed two more…
At least two protesters have been killed in clashes between security forces and a cortege accompanying the coffins of eleven people killed in a…
Ahead of a demonstration organised by the Front National pour la Defence de la Constitution (FNDC), police officers in Guinea have arrested over a…
A series of press freedom and freedom of assembly rights violations in Nigeria were the dark spots of the month of August 2019 which…
Nigeria’s security agents perpetrated a gross violation of the right to peaceful assembly on August 19, 2019, as they deployed in full force to…
It was a tumultuous month for freedom of expression in West Africa as July 2019 recorded several violations including the killing of 12 protesters…
The authorities of the city of Sanguoine, located western region of Cote d’Ivoire, on August 5, 2019, denied supporters of the opposition Parti Democratique…
A sit-in demonstration planned by the civil society group Martin Luther King Movement (MMLK) in Togo has been banned by the country’s Minister for…
Guinea’s Parliament on July 6, 2019, approved a law, which empowers gendarmes in the country to exercise discretion to decide if it is appropriate…