Whistleblowers in Africa, a high-risk activism?

Screen capture from the PPLAAF website, a new platform for protecting whistleblowers in Africa. Screen capture / https://pplaaf.org/

By: Alain Foka

They make a cause of their fight. Transparency, access to healthcare, freedom of expression, human rights ... Some activists, women and men, risk prison and put their lives at risk in the name of their ideals. What about the African continent? Are whistleblowers more or less threatened depending on the country? Do organizations exist to advise and protect them? Are their feats of arms emulated? 

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With our guests:

- Nadjo Kaina , Chadian spokesperson for the IYINA citizen movement, activist and human rights defender. Former coalition coordinatorLet's turn the page and former national student president of Chad (UNET)

- Jean-Jacques Lumumba , Congolese whistleblower in the “Lumumba papers” affair, co-founder and president of the anti-corruption platform UNIS. Received the 2019 international anti-corruption excellence award UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)

- Calibro Calibri , Cameroonian activist leader within the BAS (Brigarde Anti Sardinards) of France

- Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa , Beninese physicist, founder of the Young Beninese Leaders Association.

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