Freedom index /100 of every african country 2024 (Freedomhouse.org)
PoliticsWhat is the definition of freedom in this study?
Same question
Here’s an example
https://freedomhouse.org/country/republic-congo/freedom-world/2022
It's on their website feel free to go read
OP should have put it in the post
Good job Ghana 🇬🇭
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Politically it’s very stable
A country that wants to slaughter gay people is very stable?
Furthermore, they are spending billions on a useless cathedral while they defaulted on several debt obligations, which raised inflation and plunged more people into poverty, and you want to call that stable.
Why are they downvoting you? They don’t want the truth and this map is cap
True
Economically and socially speaking, Ghana is not in a good position Soo🤷🤷🏿
If Not Yet Uhuru was a picture.
Ghana!! ✌🏼
How bad is the situation in South Sudan?
I m curious how did it beat Eritrea?
Yea that's what made me ask that, I've saw the report and it gives a minus four due to ethnic killings but I don't know if i'm misremembering rn.
People really are coping in the comments here. We can be proud of our respective countries while still recognizing deficiencies. These scores don't come from nowhere. You can read about why they scored the countries the way they did. Let's be nuanced in the way we criticize these scores rather than throwing them all away and proclaiming that Africa actually has no issues with social and political freedoms.
Also, keep in mind, just because your lifestyle is comfortable, if you're using Reddit you do not represent the average African, let's be honest.
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Cna you explain what exaclty is biased in their methodology please?
https://freedomhouse.org/reports/freedom-world/freedom-world-research-methodology
Otherwise you're just whining.
Look at how high they rate Israel. This is the country with draconian laws on the Palestinians, a history of institutional racial discrimination, and controlling damn everything that goes in or out of Palestine. It’s extremely biased, it just rates those that are closer to the west as free.
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"Most of the organization's funding comes from the U.S. State Department\4]) and other government grants"
Totally unbiased map /s
Can you explain how exactly this bias is formed in their methodology?
The US state department funds a lot of things, it doesn't mean they have controk or say over anything included within.
Sure. Free money lol. Anything you fund is under your control. You really think they just fund this organisation without any say or motive?
Anything you fund is under your control.
This is a naive perspective.
Giving money to an orgs that you beleive does good work doesn't grant you directory power over that org. You may have influence, but now it's on you to prove how exactly the US has exercised it's influence here.
You really think they just fund this organisation without any say or motive?
Without any motive? No. They believe the work this org does is important. I don't believe they have any direct say in what is published, or what's being claimed here that the results of this are fudged to produce a geopolitically US centric outlook.
The proof is on the map. Countries that have nationalized their resources and don't have good relations with the US are deemed less free.
Think the Americans aren't pissy about Angola nationalizing their oil and joining the US's enemy OPEC? One example of many.
It's more naive to think the biggest liner of one's pockets also doesn't have any say at all lol. You honestly think the government just funds freedom house as a gesture of "good job, buddy"? 😂
This is just you being unhappy with the results.
It's more naive to think the biggest liner of one's pockets also doesn't have any say at all lol.
The US funds many things without ever having a say in it.
You honestly think the government just funds freedom house as a gesture of "good job, buddy"?
Governments do this all the time. Literally yes.
Do you a good source? Unbiased one ?
Nope. I don't care for "freedom" maps. In a world governed by capitalism, a wealthy Chinese man is far more free than a broke Frenchman
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Yeah but he's still uncertain where his next meal comes from
And in that respect as well Africans are generally also less free since there is less food security
Yup. There is no freedom without economic freedom.
Jack Ma enters the chat
He ran his mouth in China and big surprise Xi put him in his place
So that's mean he is free then, right ? /s
And yet if i remember correctly they briefly put the US as a flawed democracy (pretty bad accusation for the US)
Also if you dislike their methodology criticize that
Oh so it's American freedom then? Yeah fuck that
Fuck American Freedoms. How dare those westerners criticise our African freedoms such as being free to oppress religious minorities, free to persecute gay people, free to throw journalists in jail. This is why this continent will never succeed.
You haven't read much news coming out of the "West" recently, have you?
Funny how countries who don't have good diplomacy with US is also not "free". Sheer coincidence I'm sure /s
And there are countries on the map who are allies of the US that are labeled not free, and there are countries on the map who are not allies of the US who are still labeled as free or partially free.
We can both cherry pick.
Overlay this with the countries that have the largest oil reserves and you'll quickly see which countries are most desperately in need of freedom.
Noooo! You can't say that! It's "naive" noooo! /s
Japan, South Korea, most of Europe, Taiwan.
Because the "African freedom" to be ruled by an unaccountable and corrupt dictator has been working out so well...
Seems OK for Burkina Faso right now
Man I love it people publish studies on life in Africa, you know, using non-African standards of life. Like the World Happiness Index ranking Botswana the second least happiest nation on earth, during a year when two European nations went to war, displacing and killing 100s of 1000s, the world's, supposedly, most powerful nation, had a record high death toll due to a global pandemic.
So what standards would you use to judge the degree of freedoms in African countries?
If the Freedom Index is so compromised as Western-centric, it would not have criticised the democratic decline in the US, nor praised East Asian democracies like Japan and Taiwan.
Also the points you raised about war and covid are not entirely related to the specific topic at hand: economic, social and political freedoms, rule of law, transparency.
If you reject these standards for African nations, are you saying Africa doesn’t need to abide by transparency and social mobility for Africa’s beautiful societies to prosper?
This is the biggest cope ever. Every single time someone criticises Africa, you have to bring up some bs about how the standards are made up because they are western.
Much of the progress made by Kenya has been detracted by our Naz! president. King of double speak and sleaze.
Xonsiderinf all the privatisation he has planned, the score will probably increase.
Purple city bird gang
The scores are definitely biased and it's pretty easy to demonstrate it without to write an essay.
Let me take Ghana and Senegal to show how much it's biased.
A1: Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections? Ghana got 4/4 and Senegal got 3/4.
Below are the justifications for Ghana:
The president, who serves as head of state and head of government, is directly elected for up to two four-year terms. President Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP was reelected in December 2020 with 51.3 percent of the vote, while his predecessor, John Mahama of the NDC, took 47.3 percent. African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) observers called the contest well-organized and generally peaceful, though EU monitors criticized a lack of campaign finance regulation and a misuse of state resources. Mahama rejected the results, alleging fraud, and issued a legal challenge that the Supreme Court rejected in March 2021.
Below are the justifications for Senegal:
The president is chief of state and head of government, and is directly elected to a maximum of two consecutive terms. In 2016, the presidential term was reduced via referendum from seven years to five, effective after the end of President Macky Sall’s first term in 2019.
In the February 2019 presidential election, Sall, of the Alliance for the Republic (APR), defeated four challengers including former prime minister Idrissa Seck of the Rewmi Party and Ousmane Sonko of the Patriots of Senegal for Ethics, Work, and Fraternity (PASTEF) party.
While international observers declared the election credible, it was marred by the exclusion of two prominent opposition politicians, Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade, who might have seriously challenged President Sall. In January 2019, just weeks before the polls, the Constitutional Council ruled they were both ineligible to run for president because they had been convicted in separate, politically fraught corruption cases.
In September 2022, following the National Assembly elections, President Sall appointed Amadou Ba as prime minister. Ba became the first to hold the role since it was reinstated by constitutional changes in 2021, after having been abolished in May 2019. Further constitutional changes adopted in December 2021 reintroduced the accountability of the government to the National Assembly—a provision that had also been removed in 2019—and restored the president’s power to dissolve the legislative body.
The Freedomhouse is able to write 4 paragraphs about Senegal but only one about Ghana. The argument used here to justify 3/4 for Senegal instead of 4/4 like for Ghana is that 2 candidates were excluded in Senegal. Excluded by who? By the Constitutional Council. The same Constitutional Council who less than 2 months ago forced the leaving president (Macky Sall) to hold the 2024 presidential election in the coming weeks. So basically Senegal got one less point for having one of the most effective Constitutional Council protecting the Constitution over and against any leader. Nice joke.
As well, Ghana is surprisingly not losing any point for alleged frauds and a lack of campaign finance regulation and a misuse of state resources. No detail about that too.
And for people who believe it's just a unique inaccuracy, it is not. Below is another example still with Ghana and Senegal.
B2. Do various segments of the population (including ethnic, racial, religious, gender, LGBT+, and other relevant groups) have full political rights and electoral opportunities? Ghana got 3/4 and Senegal as well 3/4
Below are the justifications for Ghana:
Ghanaian laws provide for equal participation in political life by the country’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups. Women formally enjoy political equality but hold few leadership positions in practice. Women won 40 parliamentary seats in the December 2020 elections, the largest share since the reintroduction of multiparty politics. Very few women won office in local elections held in December 2023.
Below are the justifications for Senegal:
Female representation in the cabinet is relatively poor. Women are better represented in the National Assembly, holding 73 seats and representing over 44 percent of the body after the 2022 legislative elections. This is partially due to a 2010 law requiring gender parity on candidate lists. Women’s overall rate of participation in politics, such as voting and engaging in local political activities, is nevertheless lower than men’s, and gender parity is less respected at the local level.
Due to high levels of discrimination and social stigma, LGBT+ people have no meaningful political representation.
So Ghana does as good as Senegal while in Senegal 73 out of the 165 seats were held by women giving a 44% woman representation. In Ghana 40 out of the 275 seats were held by women giving a 14% woman representation. Nice joke.
As well, in the justifications you logically have a paragraph about the anti-LGBTQ+ position of Senegal, but magically there isn't any about Ghana. However if we go to check, I'm pretty sure Ghana is as homophobic as Senegal. Probably an innocent oversight...
The scores are highly biased just like the justifications aren't even consistent from one country to another one. And here my point isn't about if one country has more freedom than another one nor to pretend everything is right in this or this country. Here my point is just to show that this freedom index is biased and so the positive like negative scores are biased too.
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Unless you have some issues to understand what was stated by the people who made the Freedom Index, Ghana doesn't relatively do better. It does worse. So don't get me wrong, but I have better things to do than to waste my time with someone who seems to be here to troll.
Ethiopia is more Free than Somalia ? I promise you that’s not the case.
Ghana wants to imprison people for merely identifying as LGBTQ. I don't want that "freedom"
Not hard to hide sexual behaviours in a religious, plus your laws are harder 14 years in prison lmfao
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Did I say I want to come?
You've never been to Somalia clearly
Seems kinda random to put 33 and 54 in the same category but 33 and 32 in different ones
STUPID MAP.
Kwame Nkrumah 🇬🇭 We need to make sure his legacy lives on
Me when I write random numbers and colors on a map
Definition of freedom used here: how close of an ally are you to the US
No, it’s actually pretty in depth and breaks down what makes the country “free” or not
https://freedomhouse.org/country/republic-congo/freedom-world/2022
Can you ELI5?
It gives questions like “Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections?”
And ranks them based off that and gives a good explanation. For example, with the question I showed there, the Republic of Congo, according to them, gets a 0/4 because:
“The president is directly elected to five-year terms. The 2002 constitution restricted the president to two terms and set an age limit of 70. However, a 2015 constitutional referendum proposed by President Denis Sassou Nguesso removed those restrictions, allowing him to run again. The referendum passed amid widespread protests and claims of fraud.
Sassou Nguesso has held power since 1979, with the exception of a five-year period in the 1990s. In March 2021, he secured a fourth presidential term since returning to power in 1997, winning 88.4 percent of the vote. The election was marked by a boycott from the opposition Pan-African Union for Social Democracy, intimidation, and an internet shutdown. Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas, who died of COVID-19 soon after the election, won 8 percent.”
It follows this format as it ranks the nations freedom based off both political and social issues
Interesting....thank you
That’s not “in depth” at all and defines freedom essentially as anything that tows American “democracy”, it classified Algeria as “partly free” in the 80s when US-backed salafists were in power and “unfree” in the 70s when socialists were, lol.
Believe it or not, being unable to elect your officials and those officials killing political opponents is wrong and means your country isn’t free. And the US ranks lower than other nations according to them, so that doesn’t really add up to what you’re saying.
No such thing as freedom. We’re all slaves to the system
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