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Niger
A High Court in Niger on September 11, 2017 granted provisional release to Ali Soumana, director of publication of a private weekly newspaper, Le Courrier, after more than two months in detention.
Africa Highlights
Attacks
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) in partnership with the Liberia-based Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) is implementing a rapid response intervention aimed at addressing media safety issues before, during and after the 2017 elections in Liberia.
Attacks
The journalists had just covered Operation Python Dance, a show of strength by the army on the streets of Umuahia aimed at ending clashes between soldiers and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, a separatist group that was angered by a recent army raid on its leader's home.
Somalia
Somali broadcast journalist Abdullahi Osman Moalim died from injuries sustained on 10 September when a suicide bomber attacked a café in Beldweyne where members of the press gather.
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Digital Rights
Togo
7 September 2017
Caro Rolando for IFEX
Africa
Attacks
Free Expression & the Law
6 September 2017
Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda)
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Attacks
Democratic Republic of Congo
Free Expression & the Law
29 August 2017
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Attacks
Togo
Freedom of Assembly
29 August 2017
Committee to Protect Journalists
Kenya
Attacks
Free Expression & the Law
23 August 2017
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Senegal
Free Expression & the Law
22 August 2017
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
IFEX
South Africa
Censorship
15 August 2017
IFEX
Media Rights Agenda (MRA)
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
Ghana
Free Expression & the Law
5 August 2017
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
Access to Information
International
Africa
3 August 2017
Caro Rolando for IFEX
Africa
Attacks
Free Expression & the Law
1 August 2017
Reporters Without Borders
International Press Institute
Zambia
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
24 July 2017
National Union of Somali Journalists
Free Expression & the Law
Somalia
24 July 2017
Association for Media Development in South Sudan
Digital Rights
South Sudan
23 July 2017
Media Foundation for West Africa
Senegal
Free Expression & the Law
17 July 2017
Reporters Without Borders
Free Expression & the Law
Niger
17 July 2017
Committee to Protect Journalists
Sudan
Censorship
17 July 2017
International Press Centre
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