{"id":36929,"date":"2025-07-21T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=36929"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","slug":"silencing-the-watchdogs-a-june-2025-overview-of-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/silencing-the-watchdogs-a-june-2025-overview-of-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the Watchdogs: A June 2025 Overview of West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">The Media Foundation for West Africa\u2019s (MFWA) monitoring of freedom of expression developments in West Africa in June 2025 recorded several incidents of freedom of expression abuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Specifically, the abuses recorded fell into three principal categories of violations: arrests, detention, and sentences; physical attacks; and suspension of media outlets.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">The violations were recorded across Togo, Benin, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Positive developments and redress were also observed, including an apology to an assaulted journalist in Sierra Leone and a significant ruling by the Senegal Supreme Court which overturned a media outlet&#8217;s suspension order.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Access the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freedom-of-Expression-June-2025.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":35394,"featured_media":36932,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[753],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-36929","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\/36929","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\/36932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=36929"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=36929"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=36929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}