{"id":2630,"date":"2020-06-29T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2020-06-29T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:48:51","slug":"weekly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":v9\">\n<div class=\"qQVYZb\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"utdU2e\">\n<h2 class=\"article-headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/debats\/2020\/06\/25\/face-a-la-politique-repressive-au-niger-le-silence-coupable-de-la-france_1792147\">Face \u00e0 la politique r\u00e9pressive au Niger, le silence coupable de la France<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"btm\">In Niger, under cover of Covid-19 restrictions, journalists are imprisoned for doing their job. And France is accused of turning a blind eye.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/debats\/2020\/06\/25\/face-a-la-politique-repressive-au-niger-le-silence-coupable-de-la-france_1792147\">Liberation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"w-blogpost-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wathi.org\/guinee-faut-il-supprimer-les-forces-de-defense-et-de-securite\/\">Guin\u00e9e: faut-il supprimer les forces de d\u00e9fense et de s\u00e9curit\u00e9?<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Aliou Barry discusses the current security situation in Guinea, arguing that due to their behaviour, security and defence forces need to be replaced with an entire new structure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wathi.org\/guinee-faut-il-supprimer-les-forces-de-defense-et-de-securite\/\">WATHI<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pandemipolitics.net\/the-covid-19-pandemic-and-democracy-in-sub-saharan-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The COVID-19 Pandemic and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Elena Gadjanova argues that COVID-19 will accelerate processes of divergence and heterogeneity, impacting aspects such as democratization, civil society and media environments, electoral management institutions but also intra-African integration and cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/pandemipolitics.net\/\">Pandemipolitics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face \u00e0 la politique r\u00e9pressive au Niger, le silence coupable de la France In Niger, under cover of Covid-19 restrictions, journalists are imprisoned for doing their job. And France is accused of turning a blind eye. Read more on Liberation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[58,139,89,912,136,252,661,911,416,910,408],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","tag-africa","tag-civil-society","tag-cooperation","tag-democratisation","tag-elections","tag-france","tag-guinea","tag-integration","tag-niger","tag-pandemic","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}