Senegalese civil society organisations have made a solemn appeal to the Senegalese people and the authorities of the Republic of Senegal, particularly to Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, to mobilise against enforced disappearances and the brutal repression exercised by the transitional authorities of Guinea against civil society activists.

Organisations, citizens’ movements, civil society figures and media professionals are joining forces to call for a revision of Article 255 of the Senegalese Penal Code. They denounce legislation that threatens freedom of expression and call for it to be brought into line with international human rights standards.

AfricTivistes expresses its deep concern over the arbitrary arrest of Kenyan activists Boniface Mwangi, Hanifa Farsafi, Hussein Khalid, Martha Karua, and Ugandan lawyer and journalist Agather Atuhaire, who were apprehended on Monday, 19 May 2025, in Tanzania while attending the treason trial of Tundu Lissu, leader of the main opposition party in Tanzania. Boniface Mwangi […]

African citizen movements, activists, campaigners, civil society actors strongly condemn the ongoing repression of journalists and media actors, as well as the drastic closing of civic space in Burkina Faso