Guinea

A journalist and two media workers were killed on September 16 while covering an Ebola education campaign in Guinea's south-eastern forested region, according to news reports and local journalists. The bodies of Facély Camara, a journalist with the privately owned radio Liberté FM at N'Zérékoré, and Molou Chérif and Sidiki Sidibé, a technician and a technician intern, respectively, with the...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed sadness at news of the death of two journalists in the West African nation of Guinea. According to the BBC, the journalists’ bodies were found in a septic tank along with five other bodies believed to be health workers. The journalists had disappeared last Tuesday, along with three doctors, after being attacked with stones by locals in the...

Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has appealed for calm and respect for the media after a week in which most journalists in the capital, Conakry, have been staying indoors for fear of being targeted by activists or by the security forces in a wave of violence that began one week after the second round of the presidential election on November 7. The Sabari FM/Le...

Colleagues of a Guinean radio journalist who was attacked by unknown assailants on July 16 are suspecting the military of being behind the attack. Etienne Mansaré, a military reporter of privately-owned Conakry-based Sabari FM, was stabbed in the back while on his way home after signing off from his political programme "Sous le Cocotier." "Mansaré must have been a victim of an action carried out...

Journalists in Guinea are forgotten victims of violence, says a report released by ARTICLE 19 after the first round of presidential elections in the country, the first free presidential elections in 52 years since independence. The report findings are based on a mission undertaken by ARTICLE 19 in the aftermath of the events of September 28, 2009, when more than a hundred and fifty people were...

The principle of press freedom has been enshrined in Guinea’s new constitution with the promulgation of two new laws by the country’s military leader, Gen Sékouba Konaté on June 22. The first decriminalises press offences while the other creates a new media regulatory body. The laws were published in the government gazette on June 28, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). “The new laws...

There has been a disturbing escalation in the Guinean military’s clampdown, consisting of denying entry to French TV crews and reporters on their arrival at Conakry international airport, Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. It coincides with continuing serious threats to local reporters and Sundays arrival of United Nations assistant secretary-general Haile Menkerios in...

Soldiers in Conakry have been addressing journalists in a very threatening manner, with such comments as “If you go out the door, I’ll cut your tongue out,” “The next time things happen, we’ll know where to find you” and “We know you, we’ll make you pay.” Ten days after army Red Berets dispersed an opposition protest with a great deal of bloodshed in Conakry on September 28, Reporters Sans...

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) is extremely worried for the safety of Mouctar Bah, the Conakry correspondent of Agence France-Presse and Radio France Internationale, and Amadou Diallo, the BBC’s correspondent. After being threatened and roughed up by soldiers while covering the violent dispersal of an opposition demonstration two days ago in which hundreds died, they are now reportedly wanted by...

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed concern over the safety of Mouctar Bah, the Conakry correspondent of Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Radio France Internationale (RFI), and Amadou Diallo, the BBC’s correspondent. After being threatened and roughed up by soldiers while covering the violent dispersal of an opposition demonstration two days ago in which hundreds died, they are now...