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More than 200 civil society organisations said on Thursday they were "concerned about a military drift in the country's governance, rather than a search for appeasement and an end to repression".

Kenya’s repression of dissent has raised concerns in Washington.

Uganda’s Idi Amin tried to use boxing and his image as a sportsman to build popularity and distract from his regime’s repression in the 1970s.

Given the heightened tension in the strip and Hamas’s brutal repression of opposition, I knew what complying with the gunmen meant: I would be lucky to leave only with broken bones that night.

Biya turned to a mix of repression, regional alliances and overtures to his former rivals to curtail threats to his rule, Arrey Ntui, the International Crisis Group's senior analyst for Cameroon, said.