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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.
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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.
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Freedom of the Press 2015: Mali
Ranked 71st in annual global media freedom report
9 July 2012
Alert
Newspaper editor kidnapped and beaten by armed men
(MFWA/IFEX) - Abdramane Keita, managing editor of privately-owned bi-weekly L'Aurore newspaper was on the night of July 2, 2012 violently attacked by unknown armed men in the capital Bamako, accusing him of causing confusion in the country.
The Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA) correspondent reported that Keita's assailants abducted him the same night and abandoned him at Senou, a town located in Bamako after seizing all his possessions including an unspecified amount of money.
The correspondent said the assailants blindfolded him, physically assaulted and seized his possessions before throwing him off at Senou.
“I do not know them but all the time, they kept calling me by my name. They told me it is you who is causing confusion in the country,” Keita told the correspondent.
The editor met his ordeal during a meeting with a supposed informer who had promised to give him information about the conflict situation in the north of the country.
According to the correspondent, when upon arriving at the agreed-to venue for their meeting, the supposed informer took the victim to a nearby place and immediately a pick-up truck pulled up with masked men who stepped out of the vehicle, and forcibly pushed Keita in and sped off.
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