The MFWA’s monitoring report for the fourth quarter of 2023 demonstrates a concerning trend of government interference, attacks on journalists, legal harassment, and media censorship, amidst endemic impunity in the region.A total of thirty-nine (39) in...
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the July 26, 2023 overthrow of President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger by the army and joins the ECOWAS and other organisations across the world to demand an immediate return to constitutional order.A grou...
West Africa is rich in resources but often saddled with poverty and political instability as a result of mismanagement and unequal distribution of resources. Active participation in governance processes by the public is one of the sure ways of whipping...
On May 29, 2023, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over from President Muhammadu Buhari as the new helmsman in Nigeria’s presidency. Even though the new president is supposed to govern largely from the same All Peoples Party manifesto, there is one area w...
On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, delivered the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament. Among the many issues he reported on was the state of freedom of expression in the country, wh...
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) in partnership with the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the UN in Ghana, will on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, convene a public forum to mark this year’s International Human Ri...
Starting October 9, 2022, 130 representatives from key state and media institutions in Guinea Bissau will benefit from a series of capacity-building sessions on Media, Freedom of Expression and Digital Rights. The training workshops are organised by th...
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and its national partners, Centre National de Presse Norbert Zongo of Burkina Faso (CNP-NZ) and the Maison de la Presse du Mali (MP), have in a joint statement expressed their solidarity and sympathy to the p...
Windhoek: The Cabinet has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform to initiate community awareness efforts regarding the outbreak and management of locusts and other pests. This directive was announced by Minister of In...
Luanda: The Vice-President of Angola, Esperan§a da Costa, assessed on Thursday, the construction works of the Luau Hybrid Photovoltaic Plant, located in the eastern province of Moxico, which will have a production capacity of more than 32.2 MW of ener...
Mombasa: The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) today embarked on a remediation and restoration initiative in Uhuru Owino, an area that has long suffered from the effects of lead poisoning. However, the process has sparked mixed reaction...
