February 13
West Africa: World Radio Day 2025 - Strengthen Press Freedom for Better Climate Advocacy
Globally, radio remains the most widely consumed media. It is the leading source of news and information in Africa where, per an April 2024 survey by Afrobarometer, 65% of Africans… Read more »
February 11
West Africa: SPPG Paints an Alarming Picture in 2024 Freedom of Expression in Guinea Report
On 4 February 2025, the Syndicat des Professionnels de la Presse de Guinée (SPPG) published its annual report on freedom of expression in the Republic of Guinea. Read more »
West Africa: Guinean Journalist Habib Marouane Camara Still Missing Two Months After His Disappearance
The Media Foundation for West Africa condemns the arbitrary arrest of journalist Habib Marouane Camara and calls for clarification from the Guinean authorities. Two months after… Read more »
February 10
West Africa: New Push for Digital Media and Online Freedom of Expression
On 2 January, 2025, an awareness-raising workshop on digital media and social networks was launched in the town of Atar as part of a new drive to promote digital media,… Read more »
February 06
West Africa: Benin's Media Regulator Suspends Six Media Outlets
On January 21, 2025, the media regulator in Benin, the High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) suspended two newspapers and four news websites, accusing them of… Read more »
February 05
West Africa: MFWA Condemns Football Fans' Attacks On Journalists in Ghana
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns the attacks on the media and other acts of violence that resulted in the death of one football fan during a football… Read more »
Nigeria: Nasarawa State University Must Respect Students' Right to Free Expression
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has learnt with shock the expulsion by Nasarawa State University, Keffi, in Northern Nigeria of 37 students over a planned… Read more »
West Africa: Media Development Fund - Here's How a Lifeline to Ghana's Struggling Media Can Be Managed
In every election season, political parties present their manifestoes to electorates who will scrutinise them and vote for their preferred candidate. The manifesto is the… Read more »
February 04
West Africa: Threats From Illegal Miners Forced Me Into Exile - Ghanaian Environmental Journalist Narrates Ordeal
Ghanaian Environmental journalist Erastus Asare Donkor of the Multimedia Group has disclosed that he had to flee Ghana before the country's 2024 elections due to life-threatening… Read more »
January 27
West Africa: MFWA Urges Police to Arrest and Prosecute Assailants of Environmental Journalist
The MFWA deplores the brutal attack by illegal miners on Ohemeng Tawiah, assistant news editor of Accra-based Joy News, and urges the police to ensure justice for the victim. Read more »
January 24
Ghana: Six Years Into Ahmed Suale's Murder - President Mahama Has Every Impetus to Pursue His Killers
The Ghana government's failure to bring the slayers of investigative journalist, Ahmed Hussein Suale Divela, to book, has dragged on for six years now - January 16th, 2025 marked… Read more »
December 31, 2024
West Africa: Guarantee the Safety of Journalist Thomas Dixon, MFWA Urges Sierra Leone IGP
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) joins the media fraternity in Sierra Leone to condemns the threats and intimidation against journalist Thomas Josephus Dixon, and urge… Read more »
November 28, 2024
West Africa: MFWA, Partners Urge Ghana Authorities to Keep the Internet On During December Elections
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and two other organisations have called on the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, to publicly commit to keeping the internet… Read more »
November 27, 2024
Ghana: MFWA Welcomes Ghana Electoral Commission's Decision to Consult On Election Accreditation
The Media Foundation for West Africa MFWA (MFWA) has read with relief the statement from the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana revoking its controversial restriction on media… Read more »
November 05, 2024
West Africa: WikkiTimes Publisher, Reporter, Face Criminal Charges Over Corruption Reporting
The Nigerian authorities should end the legal harassment of the WikkITimes and allow the newspaper to continue its work without any more distraction. Read more »
October 29, 2024
West Africa: Monitoring of Indecent Campaign Language in Ghana - Findings From September
This report presents findings from the daily monitoring of selected programs on 30 radio stations in Ghana. The data was collected from the 1st to the 30th of September 2024. It… Read more »
October 22, 2024
West Africa: Private Security of Mining Company Assault Media Crew and Resist Arrest
Armed private guards of Edelmetallum Resources Limited, a mining company near Manso Nkran in the Ashanti region, have attacked a three-man crew of journalists reporting on the… Read more »
October 15, 2024
West Africa: Fighting Impunity in West Africa - MFWA Assembles 14 Lawyers to Defend Journalists, Activists
In response to the persistent trend of legal harassment against journalists and civic activists in West Africa, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has put together a… Read more »
October 07, 2024
West Africa: MFWA Convenes Public Forum On the Law and Freedom of Expression in West Africa
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) will on Wednesday October 9, 2024, hold a public forum in Accra on the law and effective legal defence for journalists and human rights… Read more »
October 03, 2024
West Africa: #StopGalamseyNow - 53 Anti-Illegal Mining Protesters Arrested
What started as a #StopGalamseyNow movement, aimed at protesting illegal mining in Ghana, has now morphed into the #FreetheCitizens movement to demand the release of about 54… Read more »
October 02, 2024
West Africa: Beneficiary of MFWA-CFI 'Equal Voices' Project Wins Best Gender and Female Journalist Awards
Humu-Khrusum Tahiru, a journalist at A1 Radio based in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana and a beneficiary of the 'Equal Voices' Project, has been adjudged the Best… Read more »
September 27, 2024
West Africa: Ten Budding Journalists Selected for the 4th Edition of Ngij Fellowship
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has selected 10 young journalists for the 2024 edition of the Next Generation Investigative Journalism Fellowship (NGIJ). This cohort,… Read more »
September 24, 2024
West Africa: Fourth NGIJ Fellowship Opens in Accra
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has officially welcomed ten early-career journalists from Ghana to the fourth edition of the Next Generation Investigative Journalism… Read more »
September 18, 2024
West Africa: Indecent Expression On Radio in August - Pro-NPP, NDC Radio Station Show Hosts Top List of Offenders
The August edition of the Media Foundation for West Africa's monitoring of indecent campaign language on radio in Ghana reports that hosts of political analysis and current affairs… Read more »
September 16, 2024
West Africa: State Broadcasters From Ecowas States Commit to Mis/Disinformation Fight
Heads of the State-owned broadcast media from member states in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have pledged commitment to countering mis/disinformation in… Read more »