Guinea

The Sub-Saharan Africa desk of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Sub-Saharan Africa hold protest in Dakar in solidarity with Guinea’s media.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges ECOWAS to press Guinean authorities to stop censoring the media.

Sékou Jamal Pendessa faces escalating harassment due to his activism against media repression under the current military regime.

The Media Foundation for West Africa urges Guinea’s media regulatory body to exhibit more tolerance towards the media.

The media sector in Guinea are demanding the unconditional release of journalist Sékou Jamal Pendessa.

Military authorities urged to end the wave of repression against the media in the country.

Suspension of broadcasting stations by Guinean authorities is reflective of growing intolerance of divergent viewpoints.

A nationwide media blackout by media associations was designed to magnify the control the ruling junta is imposing on the media.

Independent radio stations in Guinea are being blocked and social media sites are only accessible via a VPN.

A group of journalists covering a peaceful protest by their colleagues, had their equipment destroyed, and then were teargassed and assaulted before they were arrested.

“Inquisiteur.net” is the second news website to be blocked in less than two weeks by the military junta in Guinea.

Freedom of expression and media freedom have come under increasing threat during the two years of military rule in Guinea.

A number of press associations in Guinea issue a joint statement to protest recurring media freedom violations in the country.

Journalists in Guinea are prevented from using Conakry’s Town Hall to stage a sit-in to protest the high handed actions of the country’s media regulator.