Senegal - Visit to Dakar during campaign for first round of presidential election

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders began a five-day visit to Senegal yesterday with the aim of monitoring the level of freedom of information and the media's behaviour during the campaign for the first round of the presidential election on 26 February. A “Mission Diary” will be available during the visit at this Internet address : http://journalmission.rsf.org The visit is being conducted by Ambroise Pierre, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Africa Desk, who arrived in Dakar yesterday morning. (...)

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