Chad - Newspaper editor held for reporting army unrest

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the arrest on 14 October of Samory Ngaradoumbé, the editor of the weekly L'Observateur, over a report about the armed forces. Ngaradoumbé is being held for publishing an article reporting disturbances in the military garrison in the far north town on Bardai, near the border with Libya, and for comparing it to last month's unrest in the Chadian army camps at Amachach, near Tessalit, inside Mali. “We strongly condemn this arrest of a journalist,” (...)

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