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Mitigating the COVID-19 Impact: Six Media Organisations in West Africa Supported to Improve Online Presence, Revenue Generation

Media and Good GovernanceFeb 25, 2021677Views 0Likes 0Comments

COVID-19 wreaked a devastating impact on the media in West Africa. The pandemic, at its peak in 2020, posed a serious challenge to revenue streams of media organisations. Advertising cuts and less spending by media consumers worsened the already precarious sustainability crisis facing the region’s media. Many media organisations laid off staff and cut down…

World Radio Day 2021: MFWA Applauds the Resilience, Versatility of Radio in the Face of COVID-19

Media and Good GovernanceFeb 12, 2021991Views 0Likes 0Comments

The theme for this year’s World Radio Day - New World, New Radio – highlights and celebrates the significance and resilience of radio in remaining sustainable over time; adapting to new technologies and continually providing services to society in the face of a changing world. In West Africa, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)…

Media Ethics: Violations further Decline by about 20% after Elections

Feb 10, 2021853Views 0Likes 0Comments

Violations of the ethics in the media have further dropped after the December presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana. The media ethics monitoring project recorded 54 ethical violations for the period of January 16-31. This is 18.5% drop in the violations when compared with the same period in December (16-31) when 64 violations were recorded.…

Ghana 2020 Elections: Abusive Language on Radio Drops Further in Post-Election Discussions

Feb 4, 20211KViews 0Likes 0Comments

After months of campaigning and heated political media conversations, Ghanaians on December 7, 2020 re-elected the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a second four-year term albeit protests from the major opposition party – National Democratic Congress (NDC). The Media Foundation for West Africa’s monitoring of political discourse on radio in post-election month (January 2021)…

NIGER’s Election: Opposition Party Moden Fa Lumana Cited as Most Abusive on Radio ahead of February Round-off

Media and Good GovernanceJan 27, 2021872Views 0Likes 0Comments

Ahead of the February 21, 2021 round-off presidential election in Niger, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is concerned that the use of indecent campaign language on radio remains high and urges all actors to tone down. The monitoring of indecent expressions on Radio shows that 41 indecent expressions were used by various political…

Ghana: Abusive Language on Radio Declines in the Month of Election

Jan 21, 20211KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The December Edition of the Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) Language monitoring project has observed a decline in the use of abusive language on radio. In the month when Ghana’s presidential and parliament elections were held, the overall number of indecent expressions dropped by 26%, from (85) in November to (63) in December. A…

MFWA Rolls Out Phase Two of COVID-19 Fact-Checking Initiative

Jan 15, 20211KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Ghana’s COVID-19 cases are on a steep rise with an average of about 600 new cases being recorded each day since the last fortnight. Already some restrictions on social gatherings have been announced subject to further reviews if citizens do not strictly adhere to the safety protocols. Mistrust, misconceptions and conspiracies about the disease are…

Media Ethics: 3 Political Shows on Pro-NPP Radio Station Oman FM Top Violations.

Media and Good GovernanceDec 28, 2020962Views 0Likes 0Comments

Three political talk shows on Pro-NPP radio station Oman FM have emerged as the worst culprits of media ethics violation, recording more than 50% of the total infractions captured in the Dec 1-15 2020 monitoring period. Out of the 110 violations recorded during the period of monitoring, the three political talk shows namely; National Agenda,…

Elections 2020 in Niger: Partisanship, Censorship and Fear of Press Freedom Violations

Media and Good GovernanceDec 18, 20201KViews 0Likes 0Comments

About 7.4 million voters in Niger are expected to cast their ballots on Sunday 27th December in a highly contentious presidential and legislative elections. The stakes are high since this year’s elections would mark the first transition of power in the history of the coup-prone former French colony. The incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou announced he…

Be Circumspect, Help De-escalate Growing Tension–MFWA to Ghana Media

Media and Good GovernanceDec 14, 2020789Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has observed with deep concern, pieces of inflammatory and inciting content related to the ongoing agitations about the 2020 elections results, that are being published or broadcast by mainstream media. Such contents have included calls for confrontations, incitement to violence, blatant unsubstantiated allegations and other acts that do…

Niger’s Election 2020: Provocative Remarks Dominate Political Discourse on Radio for the month of November

Media and Good GovernanceDec 10, 2020556Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) monitoring of indecent and abusive language on radio in Niger has revealed that during the month of November, provocative remarks were the most used abusive expression by political actors. Out of 14 indecent expressions recorded for the period, provocative remarks were used 09 times while unsubstantiated allegations were…

West Africa Experts Express Concern Over Negative Impact of COVID-19, Political Upheavals on Media Sector

Dec 8, 2020570Views 0Likes 0Comments

West African governance and media experts have expressed concern about the debilitating economic and sustainability challenges that the Corona virus has posed to the media sector, as well as the negative impact on the press freedom environment of recent political crisis in the Region. They have consequently called on the various stakeholders to work together…