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LIFE AFTER COVID-19 IN AFRICA: AfricTivistes and Oxfam are working to increase young people’s involvement in the running of their communities

Life after COVID-19 is a concern around the world. The situation could be complex for Africa, which was already facing major challenges such as povert…

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Training in digital journalism – Open Data Day 2020

Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data around the world. For its tenth edition, user groups, experts, community members and networks worl…

24 octobre 2025Read

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Niger’s law on the interception of certain electronic communications: AfricTivistes condemns its adoption and calls for a second deliberation

On Friday 29 May 2020, the National Assembly of Niger adopted the law on “the interception of certain communications transmitted electronically”. Afri…

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Côte d’Ivoire and Benin are withdrawing citizens’ and NGOs’ direct access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Following AFRICTIVISTES’ call for proposals for the Local Initiative for Justice II programme, more than 30 applications were received. Choosing the s…

24 octobre 2025Read

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Regrettable postponement of the 3rd Africtivistes Summit #Nairobi2020

It is with the deepest regret that AFRICTIVISTES, the African network of bloggers and cyber-activists for democracy, announces the postponement of its…

24 octobre 2025Read

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Food distribution in Senegal to address the socioeconomic effects of Covid-19: AFRICTIVISTES calls for greater transparency in managing the crisis

On Saturday 11 April 2020, President Macky Sall received 146,000 tonnes of food at the Port of Dakar before launching emergency food aid distribution …

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Mauritania: The AfricTivistes community trains young people in leadership and civic engagement

“Youth civic engagement: the foundation of development.” This is the theme of the workshop organised by the AfricTivistes community in Mauritania, led…

23 octobre 2025Read

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Civictech: a new hub for citizen-led and entrepreneurial innovation

The Institut Français incubator in Dakar and the Civictech Europe Association are organising an evening of discussion dedicated to citizen and entrepr…

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AfricTivistes launches the Dialogue Migration platform

On 29 September 2022, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm GMT, AfricTivistes is launching a new news platform dedicated specifically to the issue of migration. …

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