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Spotlight: Senegal Free Expression & the Law

Senegal's new press code: One step forward, two steps back

Senegal's new press code: One step forward, two steps back

17 July 2017
Media Foundation for West Africa

Of particular concern to the media community is article 192 of Senegal's new press code, which states that a district chief executive and other authorities can suspend a media house if a publication is deemed to be a "threat to the national security."

Africa Highlights
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Free Expression & the Law Niger

Journalist faces five years in prison for "publishing stolen documents"

Ali Soumana, publisher of the weekly "Le Courrier", has been held for publishing the public prosecutor's summing-up in a five-year-old legal dispute between Niger and a Lebanese company called Africard.

‎ Reporters Without Borders‎17 July 2017

Sudan Censorship

Sudan censors newspapers for reporting FIFA suspension of Sudan Football Association

Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have ordered the editors of a sports newspaper to remove articles pertaining to FIFA's suspension of the Sudan Football Association from membership in the group.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists‎17 July 2017

Nigeria Attacks

Gunmen kill Nigerian Television Authority journalist

The International Press Centre, Lagos-Nigeria has condemned the murder of Lawrence Okojie - a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority - who was allegedly killed by gunmen on 8 July 2017.

‎ International Press Centre ‎13 July 2017

Latest from Africa

UPR submission highlights Burundi's "markedly worsening situation" for free expression

‎ ARTICLE 19

Burundi Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 9 July 2017
South Africa journalists obtain order to stop intimidation campaign

‎ International Press Institute

South Africa Attacks 9 July 2017
Ghana's Seth Kwame Boateng named "journalist of the month" by free expression group

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Access to Information Ghana 7 July 2017
Activist Jean-Marie Kalonji & lawyer Sylva Mbikayi Kabanga detained in DRC

‎ Human Rights Watch

Democratic Republic of Congo Free Expression & the Law 7 July 2017
Network of African free expression groups calls for end to impunity for crimes against journalists

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Impunity Africa Digital Rights 6 July 2017
Africa at a glance: Elections, mining for trouble and a threat to the state

‎ Caro Rolando for IFEX

Africa Attacks Free Expression & the Law 5 July 2017
Student leader Satchivi Foly detained by gendarmes in Togo

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Attacks Togo Freedom of Assembly 27 June 2017
Tanzania imposes 2-year publishing ban on privately-owned "Mawio" newspaper

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Tanzania Digital Rights Censorship 25 June 2017
Yet again, Angola charges Rafael Marques de Morais

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Angola Free Expression & the Law 25 June 2017
Denial of free expression remains "systematically entrenched" in Eritrea

‎ ARTICLE 19

Impunity Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 25 June 2017
Rwanda requires candidates to have online messages approved

‎ ARTICLE 19

Rwanda Digital Rights Censorship 15 June 2017
DRC: Ten years after murder of Radio Okapi journalist Serge Maheshe, impunity reigns

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Impunity Attacks Democratic Republic of Congo 14 June 2017
Arrests, attacks & censorship: Free expression violations in West Africa triple in first quarter of 2017

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Africa Attacks Censorship 13 June 2017
Côte d'Ivoire withdraws controversial media bill following MFWA petition

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Free Expression & the Law Côte d'Ivoire 13 June 2017
Royal Media group journalist Emmanuel Namisi threatened, assaulted in Kenya

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Kenya Attacks 13 June 2017
Charles Otu, reporter for "The Guardian Nigeria", attacked by armed thugs

‎ Media Rights Agenda

Nigeria Attacks 9 June 2017
Comprehensive media reform initiative kicks off in The Gambia

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

The Gambia Free Expression & the Law 9 June 2017
Ethiopia: Third Internet shutdown follows imprisonment of two human rights activists

‎ ARTICLE 19

Ethiopia Digital Rights Freedom of Assembly 6 June 2017
"Horseed Media" editor Mohamed Adan Dirir held without charge in Somaliland

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Free Expression & the Law Somalia 4 June 2017
Uganda bans film for "glorifying homosexuality"

‎ ARTICLE 19

Uganda Censorship 4 June 2017
The ghost of elections past

‎ Human Rights Watch

Kenya Attacks Censorship 2 June 2017
South Sudanese journalist George Livio Bahara released after almost 3 years in prison

‎ Association for Media Development in South Sudan

South Sudan Free Expression & the Law 30 May 2017
Ethiopian editor Getachew Shiferaw convicted of "inciting subversion"

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Ethiopia Censorship Free Expression & the Law 29 May 2017
Benin: Mayor of Cotonou sues "Nord Sud Quotidien" director for USD $85,000

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Benin Free Expression & the Law 29 May 2017
New censorship board in Zimbabwe to "regulate and control" media

‎ Media Institute of Southern Africa

Zimbabwe Digital Rights Censorship Free Expression & the Law 26 May 2017
Laughing at power in Zimbabwe

‎ Caro Rolando for IFEX

Zimbabwe Digital Rights Censorship Free Expression & the Law 25 May 2017

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