Mali

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Spotlight: Attacks Mali

SG of Mali's truth commission brutally assaults and threatens editor

5 December 2018
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

The secretary general of Mali's newly established Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) Colonel Abdoulaye Makalou brutally assaulted and threatened to kill Hamidou Toure El Hadji, the managing editor of an online news site.

Mali Attacks Freedom of Assembly

Security forces in Mali brutally break up demonstration

A recent opposition supporters protest march in Bamako was violently dispersed by security forces in Mali.

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)‎29 November 2018

Impunity Mali Attacks Digital Rights

Mali's elections marred by country's history of continual violence

Mali has always been threatened by violence with journalists being specifically targeted over the years.

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)‎ 3 August 2018

Mali Free Expression & the Law

Three journalists in Mali arrested, detained and released

Malian police seized equipment from the privately owned MaliActu news website, arrested 3 of the journalists working there and released them the next day.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎10 March 2018

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Ethiopia, DRC & Mali: 183 killed in protests between July-December 2016

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Ethiopia Impunity Mali Attacks Democratic Republic of Congo 21 March 2017
Deadly clashes in Mali followed by social media blackout

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Mali Digital Rights Censorship 27 August 2016
At least one protestor dead in Mali after authorities crack down on protests

‎ Freedom House

Mali Attacks Freedom of Assembly 18 August 2016
Dim prospects for media freedom in northern Mali after French journalists' murder

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Impunity Attacks Mali 6 November 2013
Radio France Internationale reporters murdered in Mali

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali 4 November 2013
Mali's president-elect urged to improve press freedom

‎ International Press Institute

Attacks Mali 29 August 2013
Media sector in Mali witnesses steady recovery, report finds

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Attacks Mali Censorship 12 August 2013
Charges dropped against Malian editor

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali 7 May 2013
Malian editor released conditionally after one month in prison

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali Free Expression & the Law 3 April 2013
Covering conflict: Mali's war, unseen

‎ Freedom House

Mali Censorship 2 April 2013
Malian editor faces charges after publishing critical letter

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali 19 March 2013
Media in Mali stage indefinite strike to call for editor's release

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Mali 15 March 2013
Malian opposition radio journalist stabbed following threats

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Mali 12 March 2013
Malian editor detained following publication of critical letter

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali Censorship Free Expression & the Law 8 March 2013
Audio: Militants fail to silence Mali's music

‎ Natasha Grzincic

Mali Censorship 1 March 2013
The day the music died in Mali

‎ Based on a Freemuse report written by Andy Morgan

Mali Censorship 1 March 2013
Foreign journalists detained, equipment confiscated in Mali

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali 11 February 2013
Military zones in Mali 'off-limits' for journalists

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali France Censorship 17 January 2013
Al-Jazeera journalists detained in Mali for two days

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Mali 7 December 2012
Members of al-Qaeda affiliated group beat journalist, close radio station in Mali

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Attacks Mali Censorship 9 August 2012
Government urged to guarantee safety of journalists in wake of post-coup violence

‎ ARTICLE 19

Mali 23 July 2012
Masked gunmen seize, assault publisher

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Mali 13 July 2012
Newspaper editor kidnapped and beaten by armed men

‎ Media Foundation for West Africa

Attacks Mali 9 July 2012
Journalist Habi Baby released after eight days in illegal detention

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali Free Expression & the Law 22 June 2012
Black week for freedom of information in post-coup Mali

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali Free Expression & the Law 18 June 2012
Three weeks of media freedom violations

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mali 24 May 2012

At a glance

Most covered free expression issues in this country

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Freedom of Expression in Mali Improving

The Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) monitoring continues to show appreciable improvements in conditions of Freedom of Expression (FoE), Media Development and Safety of journalists; general human rights and social conditions in the once conflict-devastated-Mali. Monitoring reports collated from MFWA network of monitors in Mali, show that general human rights conditions, FoE and the work of the media are progressing steadily.

Media Foundation for West Africa 18 October 2013
Freedom of the Press 2016: Mali

Mali’s media landscape remained relatively open in 2015, allowing new media businesses to expand and journalists generally free to continue their work.

Freedom House 24 April 2016
Freedom of the Press 2015: Mali

Ranked 71st in annual global media freedom report

Freedom House 1 May 2015