{"id":90751,"date":"2026-06-15T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90751"},"modified":"2026-06-15T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:20:07","slug":"sahel-juntas-are-crushing-basic-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/15\/sahel-juntas-are-crushing-basic-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel juntas are &#8216;crushing&#8217; basic freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59506\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alliance-of-Sahel-States-AES-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alliance-of-Sahel-States-AES-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alliance-of-Sahel-States-AES-770x385.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alliance-of-Sahel-States-AES-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alliance-of-Sahel-States-AES-360x180.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/how-africa-can-halt-the-new-wave-of-coups\/a-75151898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">2020\u20112023 coups<\/a>\u00a0in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, military leaders have imposed sweeping criminal defamation and antiterrorism laws that enable the arbitrary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/dw-correspondent-released-from-prison-in-niger\/a-77097871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">detention of journalists<\/a>, bloggers and activists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/sahel-juntas-are-crushing-basic-freedoms\/ar-AA25u6pb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a2fa6bf3c33407da202aea67d440d82&ei=25\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Since the\u00a02020\u20112023 coups\u00a0in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, military leaders have imposed sweeping criminal defamation and antiterrorism laws that enable the arbitrary\u00a0detention&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shale-junta.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90753,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90751\/revisions\/90753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}