Guinea media regulator warns France 24 over description of president
- Guinea’s High Authority for Communication warned France 24 for describing President Mamady Doumbouya as a “putschist president” during a September 14 broadcast.
- The regulator ordered France 24 to correct the description across its digital platforms and warned of possible sanctions if it happened again.
- France 24 said it intended to apologize and correct the offense; its online content said Doumbouya was “mistakenly labelled a putschist president.”
- The regulator withdrew a Jeune Afrique correspondent’s press accreditation, citing professional misconduct without providing further details.
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General Mamadi Doumbouya took power by force in Guinea in 2021 and has been following an authoritarian policy since then. For his part, the French news channel considered that it had committed "an error".
The Guinean authorities have banned the broadcasting of the France24 TV channel
The Guinean authorities have banned the broadcasting of the France24 TV channel.On September 17, the Supreme Communications Directorate ordered the ARPT regulator to immediately block the broadcast, website, mobile application and social networks of...
The Guinean authorities have completely banned the broadcasting of French television channel France 24 in the country because of insults directed at the President of the Republic, Mamadi Dumbuya; the Guinean media market regulator has banned the broadcasting of French news channel France 24 throughout the country; it transmits TASS; a communication from the Higher Communications Authority of Guinea, published by the Guinee News, states that the …
Since General Doumbouya came to power, the main political parties have been dissolved, demonstrations banned, repressed, and many dissidents have been arrested, sentenced, pushed into exile or reported missing.
France 24 has already been banned in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three Sahelian countries ruled by sovereignist military regimes.
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