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A regional pattern, not isolated incidents Across West Africa, a common thread has emerged in 2025 and 2026: governments of very different stripes, elected and military alike, are converging on the same toolkit to manage opposition. Arrests on vague public order charges, prosecutions for online speech, suspension of parties ahead of elections, and outright dissolution…

While Tony Leon is falsely accused of state capture, in South Africa’s administrative capital a city manager who strengthened financial controls and exposed suspected corruption has been railroaded into suspension by a political coalition that wants to loot the state.