Guest Column - CIVICUS , the global civil society alliance, rates civic space in six Sub-Saharan African states as " closed", in 21 as "repressed" and in 14 as "obstructed". In its 2020 report, People Power Under Attack, it reports that civic space has been reduced in four West African nations and has improved in the Democratic Republic of Congo and and Sudan. Sylvia Mbataru and Ine Van Severen unpack what the report says about Sub-Saharan Africa.
