Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire ¨C Journalists in Cote d¡¯Ivoire have raised the alarm about what they complain are government attempts to shackle their profession and control it.
Press freedom is more established in Cote d¡¯Ivoire than in other west African countries but remains precarious amid a decline in a region hit by conflict and under political and economic pressure.
The Ivorian government¡¯s bid to impose a new leader on the National Union of Ivorian Journalists (UNJCI) has sparked protests in recent months over an ¡°unprecedented¡± bid to impose control.
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