Mauritanian Authorities Must Release Journalist Salem Kerboub
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) urges the authorities in Mauritania to release Ahmed Mohamed Salem Kerboub from detention and end the harassment…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) urges the authorities in Mauritania to release Ahmed Mohamed Salem Kerboub from detention and end the harassment…
Since June 10, 2020, three new people have joined Mauritania’s nine-member media regulatory body, the Haute authorite de la presse et de l’audiovisuel (HAPA)….
Authorities in Mauritania have arrested a journalist, an opposition politician and number of citizens in a recent clampdown on freedom of expression online that…
The government of Mauritania has barred the correspondents of four international media organisations from reporting on the practice of slavery in that country and…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release of blogger Mommeu Ould Bouzouma and urges the Mauritanian authorities to drop all charges…
The arrest and sentencing of members of pro-democracy activists in Mauritania for calling for political reforms is a retrogressive act and the MFWA urges…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release of blogger Mohamed Ali Ould Abdel Aziz and journalists Abdou Ould Tajeddine and Cheikh…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the release from detention of Mauritanian blogger, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkheitir, after five years in detention…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) welcomes the positive developments in Mauritania over the past week which have seen the restoration of the…
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) calls on authorities in Mauritania to immediately release Ahmedou Ould Wediaa, a journalist of the private television…
The Mauritanian authorities on July 3, 2019, restored Internet access on mobile phones after a 10-day blackout. The authorities blocked access to the internet…
The authorities in Mauritania have disrupted social media amidst police assault on opposition protesters following disputed presidential elections in that country. Mobile telephone connections…