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Human rights activists and journalists in Ghana on August 3, 2009 converged at the Ghana International Press Centre in Accra for a public forum to expose the Ghanaian public to the political situation in Niger which has brought in its wake dire consequences for democratic institutions in the coun

‘I hate victims who respect their executioners.’ (Jean-Paul Sartre).

President Mamadou Tandja of Niger, operating under his emergency powers on July 8, 2009 gave sweeping powers to Daouda Diallo, chairman of the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (CSC), the media regulatory body, to unilaterally deal decisively with the country's media.

Behind fighter-planes and gunboats, Nigerian forces launched a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta on 13 May, displacing 30,000 people and sparking a humanitarian crisis.