He accuses the authorities in particular of “freezing the bank accounts” of media companies for non-payment of tax, “seizing (their) production equipment, unilaterally and illegally terminating advertising contracts, freezing payments” due to the media. “The objective is none other than the control of information and the domestication of media actors”, believes Mamadou Ibra Kane.
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In Senegal, the media sector has long faced economic difficulties, with actors denouncing poor working conditions. The publisher of two of the most widely read sports dailies in the country, “Stades” and “Sunu Lamb”, suspended its publication at the end of July, after more than twenty years of presence in the Senegalese media space due to economic difficulties.
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, appointed by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who took office in early April, denounced in late June the “misappropriation of public funds” that he said had been engaged in by certain media owners who do not pay their contributions to social security. . He also warned the media who, according to him, write what they want in the name of the so-called freedom of the press, without any reliable source. Comments that the profession deemed threatening to the media.