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Journalist in critical condition, two others injured, following attack on radio station
Guinea-Bissau journalist Maimuna Bari is currently in a coma, after sustaining spinal injuries following an attack on Rádio Capital FM by men in military uniform.
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Guinea-Bissau media support project to enhance development
The Media Foundation for West Africa rolls out comprehensive project to promote media freedom and capacitate media associations and unions in Guinea-Bissau.
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Radio journalist assaulted by Guinea-Bissau Coast Guard officer
Radio journalist Emerson Gomes was forced to seek specialised medical treatment after being brutally attacked by a Guinea-Bissau Coast Guard officer.
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Attempted abduction of journalist Adão Ramalho fails
Guinea-Bissau radio broadcaster Adão Ramalho narrowly escapes an abduction, just weeks after journalist António Aly Silva was kidnapped and assaulted.
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Guinea-Bissau journalist António Aly Silva abducted and brutally assaulted
António Aly Silva edits the privately owned news website “Ditadura de Consenso’, which frequently criticizes the country’s government and President Umaro Sissoco Embaló.
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Guinea-Bissau ramps up repression
Authorities in Guinea-Bissau must probe an attack by security forces on journalist Souleymane Seidy and civil society activist Franique Da Silva, as police censor criticism of school closures.
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Guinea-Bissau journalist Souleymane Seidy savagely assaulted
A day after his on-air discussion on the month-long closure of schools, Guinea-Bissau journalist Souleymane Seidy was assaulted and detained by police while covering student protests.
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New Guinea-Bissau government seems set to continue controlling media
It is unlikely that the media and political landscape in Guinea-Bissau will improve as the newly elected government are intent on continuing with the tradition of oppressing the media and muzzling free speech.
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30 radio stations in Guinea-Bissau go silent to protest attack on Capital FM
The attack on Radio Capital FM followed several threats to the station which its Management says were reported to the police.
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Occupation of broadcasting stations by military in Guinea-Bissau unjustified
Reporters Without Borders condemns the military occupation of Guinea-Bissau’s state television and radio stations and harassment of state media journalists.
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Media muzzled prior to Guinea-Bissau presidential election
Two independent radio stations were shut down two weeks before the start of the campaigning for the presidential election in Guinea-Bissau.
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Staff at Guinea-Bissau’s national broadcaster protest political meddling
Staff from national broadcaster, Televisão da Guiné-Bissau, began a partial strike to protest political meddling and are demanding an end to censorship and bias in the coverage of news.
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Guinea-Bissau expels Portuguese journalist; another flees into hiding
Portuguese journalist Fernando Teixeira Gomes was ordered to leave the country after he was accused of publishing “hostile reports” against the government.
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Military junta enforces media blackout
On the day of the coup, the coup makers forced all the media houses to close down.
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Newspaper given reprieve as suspension threat lifted
Recent remarks by a government minister constitute a form of intimidation that undermines media freedom and independence, says RSF.
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Government urged to lift suspension of newspaper
The suspension decision follows the paper’s publication of a front page article which authorities charged “deliberately distorts the government’s image.”