Since March 2020, Honourable Soumaila Cissé is being held hostage by an armed group, following a targeted kidnapping operation in which one person was killed and many injured among members of his...
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The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Africa, in partnership with the Africa Liberal Network and Liberal International, issued a call for proposals for our Africa Climate Change Project in...
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The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom's Africa Regional Office together with Liberal International is working on liberal perspectives on Climate Justice and Smart Cities. Although, Africa is...
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Journalists indicted that media coverage of Covid-19 is largely concentrated on events, updates and statistics. They said the reportage is driven by information coming from the official channels,...
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Fake news and disinformation are a growing problem in the digital age. Messenger services and social media make the distribution of such unchecked information, which is often associated with...
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Authoritarian governments across Africa have used the opportunity offered by the Corona-virus-crisis to strengthen their hold on society. In countries like Guinea, Zimbabwe, Togo, Rwanda and Uganda...
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Support for the anti-virus measures is widespread across Africa, but there are concerns about the safeguarding of freedoms. Africans are sharply divided over government intrusion in economic freedoms...
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Ultimately, the question is moot. Digitalisation, which I’m using as a shorthand for the largely unchecked growth of the social media platforms, the vulnerabilities created by a reliance on third...
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Faced with these serious threats to the sustainability of African economies, the countries have pledged to take up measures of mitigating the impact of the pandemic on their economies particularly...
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As of today, my government imposes a 21-day lockdown without the necessary measures in place, at the very least of ensuring that we have water supply. We hear of deaths happening in people’s homes...
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