Senegal - Letter to presidential candidates and report of visit to Dakar

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders wrote to Senegal's 14 presidential candidates on 17 February, the final day of its pre-election visit to Dakar, urging them to undertake to defend and promote freedom of information if elected on 26 February “In view of the diversity of its media and the outspoken reporting style, Reporters Without Borders does not dispute that freedom of information exists in Senegal,” the letter said. “But this freedom is often threatened by physical attacks on news media, jamming (...)

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