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Guinea: Government must investigate excessive use of force and internet restrictions

The legislative election and referendum on a Constitution revision which would allow the President to run for a third term on Sunday 22 March 2020 […]

Senegal: Electronic communications bill, ARTICLE 19 and other civil society organizations sound the alarm

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BILL Amend Article 27 which threatens access to WhatsApp, Viber, YouTube, etc. The Electronic Communications Bill adopted by the Government of Senegal on […]

Governments must protect women victims of violence during the coronavirus pandemic

ARTICLE 19 West Africa called today on governments to do more to protect women from the most pervasive breach of human rights: violence against women. […]

Guinea: Crackdown on post-electoral protests by security forces must be investigated

ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns excessive use of force by security forces and the riots by supporters of political parties in the aftermath of the presidential […]

Nigeria :Crackdown on journalists suffocates press freedom

ARTICLE 19 reveals today in a briefing a significant increase in assaults, arrests and prosecution of the media in Nigeria compared to 2019, with 51 incidents in 2020 […]

CÔTE D’IVOIRE: The Government must lift the ban on protest ahead of the presidential election

ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns the decision of the Government of Côte d’Ivoire to extend the ban on public protest until 1 November 2020. This ban means no […]

Nigeria: Stop the killings of protesters by security forces and end impunity

Responding to the news that Nigerian soldiers shot at peaceful and unarmed protesters in Lagos on 20 October, Fatou Jagne Senghore, Regional Director of ARTICLE […]