AllAfrica News: NGOs and Civil Society

[This Day] The Shamadean Imole Charity Foundation has commenced the sixth edition of the Lagos State Inter-Public Schools Championship, an initiative aimed at promoting academic excellence, creativity, sportsmanship, and the overall value of education among students in public secondary schools across the state.

[This Day] Ado Ekiti -- A civil society organisation, the Partnership for Ethical Governance (PEG), has called on the federal government to increase funding for the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), saying that sustained investment in infrastructure, research, digital technology and energy is critical to consolidating the institution's ongoing reform drive.

[Premium Times] The organisations are calling for the immediate withdrawal of the Bill, warning that it could restrict civic space and put human rights defenders at risk.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A coalition of nine Tigrayan civic and gender-justice advocacy organizations has demanded an immediate appeal of the acquittal of two men previously sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of 32-year-old Zewdu Haftu, saying the reversal was issued without the original digital evidence ordered by a higher court ever being produced and examined.

[HRW] Backing Outside Political Agendas Carries a Human Rights Cost