{"id":42981,"date":"2026-04-23T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/04\/23\/pope-in-equatorial-guinea-moral-authority-role-risks-being-whitewashed-used-to-legitimise-power\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:02:01","slug":"pope-in-equatorial-guinea-moral-authority-role-risks-being-whitewashed-used-to-legitimise-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/04\/23\/pope-in-equatorial-guinea-moral-authority-role-risks-being-whitewashed-used-to-legitimise-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope in Equatorial Guinea: Moral authority role risks being &lsquo;whitewashed &amp; used to legitimise power&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Fran\u00e7ois Picard is pleased to welcome\u00a0Tutu Alicante, international human rights lawyer.and\u00a0anti-corruption activist. According to Mr. Alicante, the Pope&rsquo;s visit to Equatorial Guinea\u00a0presents a paradox: it offers a rare opportunity to spotlight injustice, yet risks being appropriated by the regime for its own validation. Could the \u00ab\u00a0global moral authority\u00a0\u00bb inadvertently lend credence to the authoritarian regime? Equatorial Guinea&rsquo;s resources have failed to lift up society and translate into human dignity. Governance remains defined by exclusion, repression, and the erosion of accountability.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ois Picard is pleased to welcome\u00a0Tutu Alicante, international human rights lawyer.and\u00a0anti-corruption activist. According to Mr. Alicante, the Pope&rsquo;s visit to Equatorial Guinea\u00a0presents a paradox: it offers a rare opportunity to spotlight injustice, yet risks being appropriated by the regime for its own validation. Could the \u00ab\u00a0global moral authority\u00a0\u00bb inadvertently lend credence to the authoritarian regime? &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-42981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}