In a communiqué, the CDEPS denounces an interference in the functioning of the editorial offices and rejects any attempt to place the press under the supervision of the press. The CDEPS warns of the multiple obstacles to press freedom, pointing the finger at fiscal pressures, the deprivation of advertising, the non-payment of benefits, as well as arbitrary cuts in the signal of certain television channels. It calls on the CNRA to respect the existing legislation by appointing the eight new members of its college, thus denouncing a “banking, even illegal” functioning of the regulatory body. The reaction of the CNRA follows a heated exchange between Badara Gadiaga, a television channel columnist, and Amadou Ba, deputy of Pastef and initiator of the interpretative law on amnesty, during a television broadcast.
The CDEPS denounces an attempt to place the press under the tutelage of the CNRA
