Abidjan, Ivory Coast ¨C Journalists in Ivory Coast have raised the alarm about what they complain are government attempts to shackle their profession and control it.
Press freedom is more established in Ivory Coast 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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