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Nigeria prepares severe media law

Location:
abuja, Nigeria, West Africa
Incident Date: February 10, 2024
Instability Rating Max 5.0: 1.50
Summary:
Amnesty International has criticized Nigerian leaders' proposal for social media regulation, expressing concerns that the government could use such laws to jail critics for up to three years and potentially shut down the internet or limit access. The organization highlighted the broad [...]

Mauritania: Police use violence to disperse protest

Location:
Nouakchott-Nord, Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel
Incident Date: January 27, 2024
Instability Rating Max 5.0: 1.50
Arrests: 15
Summary: Mauritania police forcefully dispersed activists from IRA who were protesting the suspension of Deputy Mariem Mint Cheikh on January 27. IRA Mauritania reported that police violently suppressed the demonstrators, resulting in several injuries, including IRA coordinator Elhaj El ID, Nouakchott-Sud regional bureau president Bounass Hmeida, Teyaret section president Mohamed Samba, and IRA-Riyad section president Mohamed Alioune. Another group of protesters was reportedly apprehended and detained [...]

Morocco: Authorities destroy homes without warning or relocation offers

Location:
bouznika, morocco, Morocco, Maghreb
Incident Date: January 20, 2024
Instability Rating Max 5.0: 2.00
Summary: After Tifnit and other fishing villages on the coast south of Agadir, then the islet of Sidi Abderrahmane facing the Corniche of Casablanca, it is the turn of Dahomey, near Bouznika, to see its homes destroyed. The “surprise” operation began on 16 January 2024, with residents denouncing in a statement “arbitrary and authoritarian acts which affect the property and [...]