{"id":50224,"date":"2025-11-19T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=50224"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:05:15","slug":"silencing-the-watchdogs-an-october-2025-overview-of-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/silencing-the-watchdogs-an-october-2025-overview-of-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the Watchdogs: An October 2025 Overview of West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The Media Foundation for West Africa\u2019s October 2025 monitoring documented<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">multiple freedom of expression violations across eight West African countries: Guinea, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Benin, Togo, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Burkina Faso. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">T<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">he breakdown of the violations is as follows: ten cases of arrest and detention, two separate cases of media suspensions, one incident of a threat, one incident of verbal assault, one attempted abduction, and eight abductions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This October 2025 report, put together by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), with support from the 11th Hour Project of The Schmidt Family Foundation, seeks to draw attention to the freedom of expression situation in West Africa, provide evidence for advocacy and policy interventions.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The report is compiled from data gathered through daily monitoring of the freedom of expression environment in the 16 countries by monitors, correspondents and national partner organisations of the MFWA. <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Freedom-of-Expression-Situation-in-West-Africa-A-October-2025-Overview.pdf\">Access the report here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35394,"featured_media":50227,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[753],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-50224","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\/50224","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\/50227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=50224"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=50224"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=50224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}