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Media group condemns threats to press freedom in West Africa
Armed conflicts, violent activities of fundamentalist groups and drug cartels and general intolerance for free expression among a number of governments have been highlighted as major threats to the advancement of press freedom in the West African region.
These major threats to the media were highlighted by the deputy executive director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, during an interaction with a group of West African journalists at the offices of the MFWA.
The journalists - who were Ghana for a training programme on reporting regional integration, organised by the Deutsche Welle Akademie - as part of their training, visited the offices of the MFWA to be briefed on conditions of press freedom in the region.
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