Government intervention
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Nigeria prepares severe media law
abuja, Nigeria, West Africa
February 10, 2024
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Mauritania: Police use violence to disperse protest
Nouakchott-Nord, Mauritania, Mauritania, Sahel
January 27, 2024
1.50
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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
bouznika, morocco, Morocco, Maghreb
January 20, 2024
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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 [...]