Shadow states are the biggest threat to democracy in Africa: Fresh reports detail how

Democracy capture occurs when a few individuals or sections of a supposedly democratic polity are able to systematically appropriate to themselves the institutions and processes as well as dividends of democratic governance

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Read more about the article Shutting down the internet doesn’t work – but governments keep doing it
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Shutting down the internet doesn’t work – but governments keep doing it

Online spaces have become the platform for various forms of political expression that many states especially those with authoritarian leanings consider subversive.

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