Media Foundation for West Africa (Accra)
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November 6
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Ghana: MFWA's Second Quarter Findings On Monitoring Electoral Campaign Language On Radio [press release]
The monitoring of electoral campaign language on radio by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) was launched in January 2012. However, the daily monitoring of electoral... Read more »
November 2
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West Africa: Burkina Faso Alert - Court Sentences Two Journalists to 12 Months Imprisonment [press release]
A Magistrates' Court in Ouagadougou, the capital, on October 29, 2012 sentenced Roland Ouédraogo and Issa Lohé Konaté, both editors of privately-owned... Read more »
October 26
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Gambia: MTWA Welcomes Decision to Drop Charges Against Two Journalists [press release]
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has welcomed the move by the Gambian authorities to drop charges against two journalists, who were arrested on September 6, 2012 for... Read more »
October 19
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Ghana: MFWA?s Report On Monitoring Electoral Campaign Language - NPP Remains the Most Abusive On Radio [press release]
Affiliates and supporters of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have once again been found to be the most abusive on radio during the monitoring of electoral campaign... Read more »
October 17
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Ghana: Report On Monitoring Campaign Language On Radio [press release]
For the past six weeks (August 19 - September 29, 2012), findings from the Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA) electoral campaign language monitoring, have revealed that... Read more »
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Togo: Nation Alert - Security Forces Manhandle Journalist [press release]
Justin Anani, a journalist of the Crocodile weekly was on October 5, 2012 physically assaulted by police officers while covering their (police) clamp down on demonstrators... Read more »
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Gambia: MFWA Campaign - Take Action - Drop Charges Against Two Journalists, MFWA Demands [press release]
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is utterly dismayed at the sluggish attitude of the Gambian police service in handling the case of the two journalists who are facing... Read more »
October 5
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Ghana: MFWA's Report On Monitoring Electoral Campaign Language - NPP Leads for the Sixth Consecutive Time [press release]
This report presents the findings of monitoring electoral campaign language on radio for the period, September 23 - 29, 2012 (26th week of monitoring). Reports were received on 121... Read more »
October 1
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Sierra Leone: Alert - Three Newspapers Suspended, Fined Two Million Leones Each [press release]
The Independent Media Commission (IMC), the statutory media regulatory body on September 26, 2012 suspended for a month, three privately-owned newspapers for allegedly producing... Read more »
September 28
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Ghana: Offensive Rhetoric Rises Ahead of Polls [document]
Electoral campaign activities are gradually intensifying as the countdown to the December polls draws near. Consequently, electoral programming and political debates/discussions... Read more »
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Gambia: MFWA Protests the Inexplicable Charges Preferred Against Two Journalists in the Gambia [press release]
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), a freedom of expression and media rights organisation based in Accra, Ghana, is concerned and dismayed about recent criminal charges... Read more »
September 27
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Guinea: Nation Alert: Journalist Molested, Radio Station Vandalized [press release]
Oumar Tely Diallo, a trainee-reporter of the privately-owned satirical Lynx-Lance newspaper, was on September 21, 2012 physically assaulted by a group of angry pro-government... Read more »
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Ghana: Joint Statement in Support of the Amendment of Sections of the Criminal Offences Act, Act 29 of 1960 [press release]
We, the undersigned organisations and individuals in Accra, having reviewed the proposed draft amendment to sections of the Criminal Offences Act as against the provisions of the... Read more »
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Guinea: Guinea Alert - Politician Rudely Disrupts Radio Programme [press release]
Elhadj Mohamed Conté, Prefect of Fria, a mining town about 160 kilometres to the North of Conakry, the capital, on September 18, 2012 stormed the studios of La Voix de Fria,... Read more »
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Ghana: Media Foundation for West Africa's Proposed Amendment to Sections of the Criminal Offences Act, Act 29 [press release]
The continuing application of section 208 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960(Act 29) and the existence of other remnant provisions in the Act have proven increasingly problematic... Read more »
September 26
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Cote d'Ivoire: Authorities Lift Ban on Pro-Gbagbo Newspapers [press release]
The National Press Council (CNP), the statutory press regulatory body, on September 17, 2012 lifted suspension sanctions it had imposed on six privately-owned pro-Gbagbo... Read more »
September 24
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West Africa: MFWA's Monitoring of Electoral Campaign Language On Radio for Week 23 - NPP Still in the Lead [press release]
The findings of the Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA) monitoring of electoral campaign language on radio over the period September 9 - 15, 2012 show that affiliates of the... Read more »
September 19
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Gambia: Two Newspapers Ordered to Close, Authorities Give No Reason [press release]
The offices of two privately-owned newspapers, Daily News and Standard Newspaper, were on September 14, 2012 stormed by operatives of the notorious National Intelligence Agency... Read more »
September 17
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West Africa: Indecent Expressions On Radio - Kennedy Agyapong Cited Again [press release]
In the latest Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA) report on monitoring electoral campaign language on radio for the period, September 2 - 8, 2012, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, the... Read more »
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Gambia: Detained Journalists Charged With Felony
Baboucarr Ceesay, first vice president of the Gambian Press Union (GPU), also working with the privately-owned Daily News newspaper, and Abubacarr Saidykhan, a freelance... Read more »
September 13
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Cote d'Ivoire: Authorities Ban Newspaper for Six Publications [press release]
The National Press Council (CNP), the statutory print regulatory body, on September 7, 2012 imposed a ban on six publications of privately-owned Notre Voie, a pro-Gbagbo daily over... Read more »
September 7
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Guinea: Guinea Alert - Two Journalists Assaulted, Briefly Detained [press release]
Emmanuel Millimono and Miss Aissatou Diakité, reporters of privately-owned Soleil FM and Espace FM respectively, on August 31, 2012, were manhandled by police officers drawn... Read more »
August 30
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Guinea: Nation Alert - Authorities Shut Down Liberté FM [press release]
Zakaria Camara, acting prefect of N'zérékoré, a town about 1000 kilometres to the south of Conakry, the capital, on August 26, 2012 closed down Liberté... Read more »
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Guinea: Nation Alert: Ruling Party Militants Violently Assault Radio Journalists, Destroy Equipment. [press release]
Six journalists from privately-owned Espace FM and Renaissance FM on August 27, 2012, were severely beaten by a group of men believed to be supporters of the ruling People's Rally... Read more »
August 28
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Cote d'Ivoire: Pro-Gbagbo Newspapers Impose a Media Black-Out [press release]
The Journals Victims of April 11, 2011 (JV11), an organisation made up of pro-Gbagbo newspapers on August 22, 2012, during a press conference stated that all member-newspapers will... Read more »
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