At the launch of ‘Civic Space in West Africa: Trends, Threats and Futures’ in Lagos, stakeholders called for collaboration to stem disregard for rule of law in nations claiming to practise democracy.
The report reads in part: “There are five major drivers of future threats to the civic space in West Africa: coups, elections, youth bulge, digital technologies and insecurity. Persisting bad governance, combined with widespread anger and political reawakening among large swathes of unemployed youths in West African countries, will incite military coups and more protests across the sub-region.
Ibezim-Ohaeri added: “Crackdowns on journalists and media outlets were documented in all 16 West African countries, taking mostly the form of arrests, detentions, office raids, brutality, seizures of journalistic equipment, sanctions and fines on broadcast media, anti-media laws designed to gag the press, hacking of cell phones, among others.
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