NAIROBI — Forty-three out of 50 countries and territories in sub-Saharan Africa have “restricted” or “shut down” civic spaces, according to a report released Wednesday by a global alliance of civil society organizations. The annual report, titled “People Power Under Attack 2024,” says civic space has improved over the past year in Botswana and Liberia, but gotten worse in Burkina Faso, Eswatini, Ethiopia and Kenya. Conditions for civil society have deteriorated over the past year in nine countries, four of which are in Africa, and general civic space conditions in the African continent remain “repressive,” according toCIVICUS, which tracks the
