10 July 2020 | UNHCR – UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
Newsletter on the education situation in West and Central Africa
Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa Education Newsletter; June 2020 (Periodical Report, English)
24 June 2020 | UN Security Council
Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Report by the UN Secretary-General on developments in West Africa and Sahel states between 1 January and 22 June 2020 (political trends; security-related developments; humanitarian situation; human rights situation; gender and youth issues; conflicts between herders and farmers; other topics)
Activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel; Report of the Secretary-General [S/2020/585] (Periodical Report, English)
10 June 2020 | USDOS – US Department of State
Benin
Annual report on religious freedom (covering 2019)
2019 Report on International Religious Freedom: Benin (Periodical Report, English)
25 May 2020 | AI – Amnesty International
Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic, Eritrea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal, Tanzania, United Republic
Article on prison conditions and COVID-19
Sub-Saharan States must protect detainees against COVID-19 (Appeal or News Release, English)
May 2020 | KAS – Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire and Benin withdraw special declaration allowing for individual complaints at the African Court of Human Rights
Côte d’Ivoire und Benin schwächen den Afrikanischen Menschenrechtsgerichtshof (Special or Analytical Report, German)
29 April 2020 | Bertelsmann Stiftung
Benin
Country report on political participation; rule of law; stability of democratic institutions; socioeconomic development; economic transformation; private property; etc.
BTI 2020 Country Report Benin (Periodical Report, English)
24 April 2020 | Stimson (Author), published by ReliefWeb
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda
Report on the security situation and conflicts between pastoralist communities and sedentary communities
The Erosion of Pastoralism in the Sudano-Sahel: Time to Recognize a Growing Security Threat? (Special or Analytical Report, English)
21 April 2020 | RSF – Reporters Sans Frontières
Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, United Republic
Article on violations of press freedom in Sub-Saharan Africa as indicated in 2020 World Press Freedom Index
2020 RSF Index: Future of African journalism under threat from all sides (Periodical Report, English)
6 April 2020 | RSF – Reporters Sans Frontières (Author), CPJ – Committee to Protect Journalists (Author), ARTICLE 19 (Author), IPI – International Press Institute (Author), AccessNow; et al. (Author)
Algeria, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Morocco, Rwanda
Joint NGO statement calling for the release of detained journalists amid Covid-19 outbreak
Covid-19 in Africa: RSF joins a coalition of civil society organizations to demand the release of imprisoned journalists on the continent (Appeal or News Release, English)
April 2020 | IDMC – Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (formerly Global IDP Project)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda
Annual report on internal displacement covering 2019
Global Report on Internal Displacement 2020 - Sub-Saharan Africa (Periodical Report, English)
