{"id":48650,"date":"2025-08-20T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=48650"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","slug":"silencing-the-watchdogs-a-july-2025-overview-of-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/silencing-the-watchdogs-a-july-2025-overview-of-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the Watchdogs: A July 2025 Overview of West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Media Foundation for West Africa\u2019s (MFWA) monitoring of freedom of expression developments in West Africa in July 2025 recorded a troubling series of abuses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The violations documented fell mainly into two categories: arrests and detentions, and physical assaults on journalists and activists. These incidents were recorded in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alongside these violations, there were also some redress measures, including bail granted to two detained Nigerians and disciplinary action taken against a police officer in Ghana who assaulted journalists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With support from the 11th Hour Project of The Schmidt Family Foundation, the MFWA continues to track and document such incidents as part of efforts to promote a safe and enabling environment for free expression in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Access the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Freedom-of-Expression-Situation-in-West-Africa-A-July-2025-Overview.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35394,"featured_media":48651,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[753],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-48650","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\/48650","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\/48651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=48650"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=48650"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=48650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}