{"id":36203,"date":"2025-04-15T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=36203"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","slug":"march-2025-west-africa-press-freedom-report","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/march-2025-west-africa-press-freedom-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the Watchdogs: A March 2025 Overview of West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The month of March 2025 witnessed a number of attacks against civic activism and expression, especially in the military-led countries of Mali and Burkina Faso. In separate instances, leaders of some civic groups in Mali and Burkina Faso were arrested and abducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other civic-expression related incidents were recorded in Mauritania, The Gambia, Ghana and Senegal. Attacks against journalists and suspension of a media outlet were also cited in Nigeria and Benin respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1466\">With support from the 11th Hour Project of The Schmidt Family Foundation, the MFWA continues to monitor and document these violations as part of efforts to promote a free and safe civic space in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1496\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Access the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Freedom-of-Expression-Situation-in-West-Africa-A-Mach-2025-Overview-3.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35394,"featured_media":36206,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[753],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-36203","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-type-reports","report-category-freedom-of-expression-digital-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/36203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=36203"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=36203"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=36203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}