Côte d’Ivoire - All pro-opposition newspapers suspended for six days

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is concerned about an order issued two days ago by the National Press Council (CNP), the print media regulator, suspending the publication of all opposition newspapers that support the Ivorian Popular Front of the former president, Laurent Gbagbo, for six days. “This mass suspension is a cause for concern since it deprives some of the Ivorian people of a source of news, even if it is biased like most of the print media in Côte d'Ivoire,” the press freedom organization (...)

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