"En Afrique francophone, les chiffres d’audience des radios internationales, et en particulier de RFI, diffèrent fortement d’une ville à l’autre, d’un pays à l’autre. Parmi les pays où la radio demeure très écoutée, figure la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), le pays francop
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hone le plus peuplé du continent. Alors que la RDC n’est pas une ancienne colonie française, la présence de RFI y est importante. Installée en FM à Kinshasa et dans 8 autres villes, avec, pendant des années, un.e correspondant.e permanent.e expatrié.e, et de nombreux partenariats avec des radios locales, RFI accorde sans aucun doute de l’importance à la RDC dans ses stratégies de déploiement." (Introduction)
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"En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), pays d'Afrique centrale qui essaie de sortir de plus de deux décennies des violences meurtrières (RFI, 2004), Radio Okapi est née sous la mission onusienne en vue d'appuyer le processus de pacification. Elle s'est pour cela définie comme la " radio d
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e la paix ", autrement dit, en tant que service public, avec à la clé l'appui à la stabilisation de la situation sécuritaire et à la démocratisation des institutions publiques. Ainsi, la radio onusienne a déployé un modèle éditorial qui est en fait un modèle de service public dans un contexte où les médias nationaux et locaux de référence présentent une programmation qui ne semble pas assez ressortir ces besoins communautaires." (Résumé)
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"Based on the needs assessment, a high proportion of women in Cameroon face online violence and are increasingly concerned about their safety in digital spaces. However, many of these respondents are unaware of any legal protections offered to them. Additionally, they believe that they lack the appr
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opriate knowledge to protect themselves in these digital spaces. Results from the needs assessment show that there is a significant need for training programs aimed at building digital security awareness and digital hygiene skills." (Conclusion)
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"Kann Gerechtigkeit eine Bedingung für Vergebung und Versöhnung sein? Diese Frage wird selten gestellt, ist aber für die Frage der Friedenspolitik in Nachkriegsgebieten von großer Bedeutung. Kriege in den Ländern in Mitteleuropa wie auch in der Region der Großen Seen Afrikas haben deren sozial
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e Gefüge schwer beschädigt. Umso schwerer waren Prozesse der Vergebung und Versöhnung. Die Suche nach der Wahrheit, auch wenn sie komplex, wenn nicht illusorisch ist, scheint ein entscheidender Faktor für die Verwirklichung von Gerechtigkeit, Vergebung und Versöhnung zu sein. Diese Themen standen in vergleichender Perspektive im Mittelpunkt der Debatten und Konferenzen der Girubuntu Peace Academy (GPA); die Ergebnisse werden in diesem Band dokumentiert." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Burundi’s scrutiny and control of media and nongovernmental organizations, and the conviction after deeply flawed proceedings of 12 journalists and activists in exile have a continued chilling effect on their work, Human Rights Watch said today. Almost one year after President Évariste Ndayishim
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iye’s inauguration, the authorities have sent contradictory signals. They have lifted some restrictions imposed on civil society and media since the country’s 2015 political crisis. But they have also doubled down on human rights defenders and journalists who are perceived to be critical of the government. A human rights activist and a former member of parliament convicted of abusive charges remain in detention. “The government should go beyond symbolic gestures of good faith to address the entrenched system of repression under the late President Pierre Nkurunziza,” said Lewis Mudge, Central Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Substantive reforms are needed to address the lack of judicial independence, politicized prosecutions, and the absence of accountability for abuses committed since 2015.” (Introduction)
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"This report is the product of an effort to understand the scale and scope of “transnational repression,” in which governments reach across national borders to silence dissent among their diaspora and exile communities. Freedom House assembled cases of transnational repression from public source
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s, including UN and government documents, human rights reports, and credible news outlets, in order to generate a detailed picture of this global phenomenon.
The project compiled a catalogue of 608 direct, physical cases of transnational repression since 2014. In each incident, the origin country’s authorities physically reached an individual living abroad, whether through detention, assault, physical intimidation, unlawful deportation, rendition, or suspected assassination. The list includes 31 origin states conducting physical transnational repression in 79 host countries. This total is certainly only partial; hundreds of other physical cases that lacked sufficient documentation, especially detentions and unlawful deportations, are not included in Freedom House’s count. Nevertheless, even this conservative enumeration shows that what often appear to be isolated incidents—an assassination here, a kidnapping there—in fact represent a pernicious and pervasive threat to human freedom and security.
Moreover, physical transnational repression is only the tip of the iceberg. The consequences of each physical attack ripple out into a larger community. And beyond the physical cases compiled for this report are the much more widespread tactics of “everyday” transnational repression: digital threats, spyware, and coercion by proxy, such as the imprisonment of exiles’ families. For millions of people around the world, transnational repression has become not an exceptional tool, but a common and institutionalized practice used by dozens of regimes to control people outside their borders." (Executive summary)
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"This chapter discusses two cases of new media formats combining journalistic skills, creativity and innovation when communicating risk and acting against disinfodemic, the collaborative website ‘Talato’ for fact-checking on the coronavirus in CAR and the fact-checking online platform ‘Congo C
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heck’ in the DRC. Their accounts feed the discussion of how disinfodemic is spreading in the region and how their communication strategies are serving as riposte against this major threat. The chapter sheds light to how these independent initiatives contribute to halt the pandemic disinfodemic in their localities. It moreover reveals fact-checking procedures and obstacles faced when journalists attempt to access verifiable and official information in settings where press is not entirely free to operate." (Abstract)
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