Guinea-Bissau

The Media Foundation for West Africa rolls out comprehensive project to promote media freedom and capacitate media associations and unions in Guinea-Bissau.

Radio journalist Emerson Gomes was forced to seek specialised medical treatment after being brutally attacked by a Guinea-Bissau Coast Guard officer.

Guinea-Bissau radio broadcaster Adão Ramalho narrowly escapes an abduction, just weeks after journalist António Aly Silva was kidnapped and 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.

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.

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.

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.

The attack on Radio Capital FM followed several threats to the station which its Management says were reported to the police.

Reporters Without Borders condemns the military occupation of Guinea-Bissau’s state television and radio stations and harassment of state media journalists.

Two independent radio stations were shut down two weeks before the start of the campaigning for the presidential election in Guinea-Bissau.

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.

Portuguese journalist Fernando Teixeira Gomes was ordered to leave the country after he was accused of publishing “hostile reports” against the government.

On the day of the coup, the coup makers forced all the media houses to close down.

Recent remarks by a government minister constitute a form of intimidation that undermines media freedom and independence, says RSF.

The suspension decision follows the paper’s publication of a front page article which authorities charged “deliberately distorts the government’s image.”

“I know this attack was due to the fact that my newspaper had published several articles about drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau,” said publisher João de Barros.