In Senegal, the TV channel Walf TV is suspended for 30 days, until July 1st. The Ministry of Communication accuses the channel of having covered the clashes between demonstrators and security forces after the conviction of opponent Ousmane Sonko to two years in prison for youth corruption.
The broadcast had been suspended since Thursday, June 1st, but according to the channel, the notification did not arrive until 8 days later. The Wal Fadjri group announced that a large part of its employees would be placed on technical unemployment: “It is a big financial loss because Wal Fadjri, before being a press group, is just a business, with fixed salaries,” warns Moustapha Diop, director of Walf TV.
It is a decision of the Ministry of Communication which denounces “the dissemination of images of violence exposing minors, accompanied by subversive and hateful remarks undermining the stability of the State” which led to the suspension.
On June 1st, the channel covered the clashes between demonstrators and security forces after opponent Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to two years in prison for “youth corruption”.