Kwaku Asante, Author at Media Foundation For West Africa

Police-Media Forums to be Held in Regions – after Successful Accra Meeting

Safety of JournalistsJul 24, 20181KViews 0Likes 0Comments

On the July 11, 2018, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), in collaboration with other media stakeholders, held a Forum with the Police Service on strengthening media-police relations for safety of journalists in Ghana. The Forum, which was held at the police Headquarters in Accra, provided a platform for frank discussions on the recent…

Prosecutor Demands 3 Years Imprisonment for Protest Leaders

Free Expression ViolationsJul 17, 2018842Views 0Likes 0Comments

Prosecutors in Niger have demanded three years imprisonment for several influential civil society leaders who have been languishing in prison since March, 2018 for leading a wave of popular protests against the country's 2018 finance law. Numbering 24, the activists, including Ali Idrissa, head of the Réseau des organisations pour la transparence et l’analyse budgétaire…

MFWA to Build Capacities of Local-Based Radio Stations in 4 Districts

Media DevelopmentJul 15, 2018673Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) will from July 23, 2018 embark on building the institutional capacities of some seven radio stations in four targeted districts across Ghana. The project follows an identified need for institutional support to these local-based radio stations by the Foundation in a previous project implemented in 2017. In the 2017 project,…

State Newspapers Ordered to Go Online Amidst Print Newspaper Crisis

Media and Good GovernanceJul 13, 2018855Views 0Likes 0Comments

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania The newspaper crisis in Mauritania has taken a new turn with the government-owned press instructed to convert into online media platforms. Starting this week, the two state newspapers, Chaab and Horizons (respectively published in Arabic and French) will only be available on the internet via the website of the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI).…

Deadly Police Brutalities Taint West Africa’s FOE Landscape in June 2018

Free Expression ViolationsJul 12, 2018700Views 0Likes 0Comments

June 2018 was marred by police brutalities against demonstrators in The Gambia and Mali, as well as the arbitrary detention of a journalist and a social media activist in Guinea and Burkina Faso, respectively. On June 18, the police in The Gambia shot and killed two people and injured many others in a crackdown on…

Media Stakeholders, Police Commit to Improving Safety of Journalists and Police-Media Relations

Safety of JournalistsJul 12, 20182KViews 0Likes 0Comments

A photo of the leadership of the Ghana Police Service and Media Stakeholders who were present at the forum Stakeholders in the media and the Ghana Police Service have made a commitment to sustain dialogue and cooperation in order to promote the safety of journalists’ situation in the country and as well improve relations between the…

Deadly Police Brutalities Taint West Africa’s FOE Landscape in June 2018

Free Expression ViolationsJul 12, 2018573Views 0Likes 0Comments

June 2018 was marred by police brutalities against demonstrators in The Gambia and Mali, as well as the arbitrary detention of a journalist and a social media activist in Guinea and Burkina Faso, respectively. On June 18, the police in The Gambia shot and killed two people and injured many others in a crackdown on…

Detained Journalist Released under Repressive Conditions; His Passport Seized

Free Expression ViolationsJul 10, 20181KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Mamadou Saliou Diallo, the journalist who was arrested on the orders of Guinea’s Justice Minister, has been released after being kept in arbitrary detention for more than two weeks. The release on July 5, 2018 of Diallo, editor in chief of the news website, nouvellesguinee.com, is, however, subject to severe restrictions, including the surrender…

Parliament Approves Bill to Decriminalise Libel

Free Expression and The LawJul 9, 20182KViews 0Likes 0Comments

George Oppong Weah, President of Liberia The lower chamber of the House of Representatives (Parliament) in Liberia has unanimously approved a bill to decriminalise libel. The majority (40 lawmakers) also voted to maintain ‘the Kamara Abdullah Kamara Act of Press Freedom’ as the official name of the law when passed. The vote on July 3, 2018…

WHY ANAS’ NUMBER 12 IS NOT A JOURNALISTIC PIECE

Investigative JournalismJul 5, 20182KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Early last month, controversial Ghanaian journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, released a documentary relating to issues of corruption in football administration. The documentary has, since its release, caused the resignation of top football officials and the dissolution of Ghana’s Football Association. Our Executive Director, Sulemana Braimah, in this write-up, however, argues that the work produced by…

Fighting Impunity: Human Rights Lawyer Goes to Court over Two-Year Detention of Journalist

ImpunityJul 5, 20181KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja on behalf of Jones Abiri, a journalist who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSSS) since June 2016, without charge. According to news reports, the suit, which was filed on July 3,…

Critical Media Denied Accreditation to Cover AU Summit

Freedom of ExpressionJul 5, 2018864Views 0Likes 0Comments

In what is perceived as a continuation of government’s hostility against the most critical media organisations, the Mauritanian authorities refused to give accreditation to the country’s leading private media houses to cover the African Union (AU) Summit hosted by the country on July 1-2, 2018. The denial of access to the summit venue affected the…

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Kwaku Asante

Police-Media Forums to be Held in Regions – after Successful Accra Meeting

Prosecutor Demands 3 Years Imprisonment for Protest Leaders

MFWA to Build Capacities of Local-Based Radio Stations in 4 Districts

State Newspapers Ordered to Go Online Amidst Print Newspaper Crisis

Deadly Police Brutalities Taint West Africa’s FOE Landscape in June 2018

Media Stakeholders, Police Commit to Improving Safety of Journalists and Police-Media Relations

Deadly Police Brutalities Taint West Africa’s FOE Landscape in June 2018

Detained Journalist Released under Repressive Conditions; His Passport Seized

Parliament Approves Bill to Decriminalise Libel

WHY ANAS’ NUMBER 12 IS NOT A JOURNALISTIC PIECE

Fighting Impunity: Human Rights Lawyer Goes to Court over Two-Year Detention of Journalist

Critical Media Denied Accreditation to Cover AU Summit

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