Freedom of the Press 2007: Benin

Reporting of news on the country’s public broadcaster is being tightly managed and controlled by personnel from the president’s office and three ministries.

In separate incidents Benin’s media regulator has indefinitely suspended the operations of ‘La Gazette du Golfe’, while ‘Radio Oméga’ in Burkina Faso is off the air.

Aziz Imorou was detained after he published a Facebook article in which he reported an alleged act of aggression against himself by a bodyguard of a government official.