Africa: Are Africans Freedoms Slipping Away?

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Freedom slipping? Africa's closing political space marked by less freedom and a willingness to trade liberties for security Africans see their individual freedoms diminishing, and many are willing to give up at least some liberties in the name of security, new Afrobarometer survey findings indicate.

The fifth of Afrobarometer's Pan-Africa Profiles,based on recent public-opinion surveys in 34 countries, reports that in most African countries, citizens' assessments of how free they are, and of how cautious they must be in exercising their rights, have worsened considerably over the past decade.

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