AFRICA

KENYA: ‘These days it feels like everyone is an activist’

DJIBOUTI: ‘Silence is the mechanism that makes authoritarianism possible’

SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Xenophobia has become a get-out-of-jail-free card for elites who have failed’

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Tunisia’s demolition of civic space

Heavy prison sentences and suspensions of civil society groups mark the accelerating consolidation of presidential power

NORTHERN AFRICA

GHANA: ‘This is bigger than LGBTQI+ rights – it’s about the kind of society we want to be’

SENEGAL: ‘The new law criminalises not only LGBTQI+ people but also anyone offering support’

BOTSWANA: ‘Court rulings matter, but it’s sustained civic action that turns them into real protection’

SOUTHERN AFRICA

MADAGASCAR: ‘The government shouldn’t forget that it’s in power thanks to young people’

TOGO: ‘A generation that had largely stayed away from public engagement has crossed a threshold’

NIGER: ‘Every external critical voice is exploited as evidence of imperialism’