Senegal: Media outlet attacked for reporting on Coronavirus
ARTICLE 19 today condemned the attack on the offices of the newspaper “Les Echos” on Monday 3 August 2020 by assailants, who have also destroyed […]
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Niger: ARTICLE 19 welcomes acquittal of Samira Sabou
Responding to the acquittal of Samira Sabou, Fatou Jagne Senghore, Regional Director of ARTICLE19 in West Africa said: “It is a great day for the […]
Sierra Leone: ARTICLE 19 welcomes the decriminalisation of defamation and seditious libel
Current President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla and immediate past President of SLAJ Kelvin Lewis celebrate in the well […]
NIGER: Release journalist and blogger Samira Sabou unconditionally
ARTICLE 19 today urged the Nigerien authorities to immediately and unconditionally release the journalist and blogger Samira Sabou, arrested and detained for more than a […]
Sierra Leone: Government must investigate the killing of protestors in Makeni
Responding to bloody repression of a protest in Makeni, which resulted in the killing of five protesters and injuring of a dozen on 18 July, […]