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Côte d’Ivoire and Benin are withdrawing citizens’ and NGOs’ direct access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Following AFRICTIVISTES’ call for proposals for the Local Initiative for Justice II programme, more than 30 applications were received. Choosing the s…

24 octobre 2025Read

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Regrettable postponement of the 3rd Africtivistes Summit #Nairobi2020

It is with the deepest regret that AFRICTIVISTES, the African network of bloggers and cyber-activists for democracy, announces the postponement of its…

24 octobre 2025Read

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Food distribution in Senegal to address the socioeconomic effects of Covid-19: AFRICTIVISTES calls for greater transparency in managing the crisis

On Saturday 11 April 2020, President Macky Sall received 146,000 tonnes of food at the Port of Dakar before launching emergency food aid distribution …

24 octobre 2025Read

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Mauritania: The AfricTivistes community trains young people in leadership and civic engagement

“Youth civic engagement: the foundation of development.” This is the theme of the workshop organised by the AfricTivistes community in Mauritania, led…

23 octobre 2025Read

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Civictech: a new hub for citizen-led and entrepreneurial innovation

The Institut Français incubator in Dakar and the Civictech Europe Association are organising an evening of discussion dedicated to citizen and entrepr…

23 octobre 2025Read

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AfricTivistes launches the Dialogue Migration platform

On 29 September 2022, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm GMT, AfricTivistes is launching a new news platform dedicated specifically to the issue of migration. …

23 octobre 2025Read

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A global consortium is working to strengthen internet freedom

Strengthening digital security, increasing citizen participation, advancing respect for human rights,… AfricTivistes’ programme coordinator, Aisha Dab…

23 octobre 2025Read

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‘Arbitrary’ suspension of Twitter in Nigeria

AfricTivistes welcomes the ECOWAS Court’s ruling and calls for a more proactive approach in its decisions On Thursday 14 July 2022, the Court of Justi…

23 octobre 2025Read

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‘Excessive terms of office’ scrutinised from top to bottom

Fridays on the MOOC “Democracy, Elections and Governance in Africa” AfricTivistes is launching the “Mooc Fridays: Democracy, Elections and Governance …

23 octobre 2025Read