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Gunmen Break into Journalist’s Home, Demand Money
A journalist with The PUNCH Newspaper in Nigeria, Okechukwu Nnodim, was on February 3, 2021, kidnapped at his home at Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja by…
A journalist with The PUNCH Newspaper in Nigeria, Okechukwu Nnodim, was on February 3, 2021, kidnapped at his home at Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja by…
The High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC), the institution in charge of media regulation in Togo, has requested the courts to withdraw the…
On his return from the town of Dori, in the Sahel region, where he co-hosted a panel discussion on electoral corruption during the electoral…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the arrest of journalist, Grace Alheri Abdu, a correspondent for Voice of America(VOA) by soldiers in…
On Sunday November 22, 2020, Burkinabés will be going to the polls in another presidential and legislative elections. This will be the country’s second…
Togolese investigative journalist Ferdinand Ayite, has been sentenced by a magistrate court in Lomé to pay a fine of 4 million CFA Franc ($7,187)…
The Media Foundation for West Africa welcomes the lifting of the one-month suspension imposed on online press, Guineematin, by the Haute Autorité de la…
The September 2020 edition of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) monitoring of indecent and abusive language on radio in Niger has revealed…
Ghanaians will head to the polls on December 7, 2020 to elect presidential and parliamentary candidates. The West African country’s credentials as a peaceful…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), condemns the denial of accreditation to Senegalese online media by the authorities of the Senegalese Football Federation…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release of Aziz Imorou, a former journalist after being detained for 19 days on cyber…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release on bail of the Editor-in-Chief of the Whatsup News, David Tamakloe and demand that…