3rd September 2009
Guinea Bans Live Political Broadcasts
CONAKRY, Guinea
Authorities in Guinea have suspended the broadcast of all interactive political broadcast, worsening rising political unease over delayed elections.
The country’s National Communications Council (CNC) announced the ban barely a week after the country’s military junta pressured telecommunications companies to suspend their text messaging services after a text was mass-circulated inciting Guineans to resist the candicacy of the junta’s leader, Captain Moussa Camara, in the still unscheduled elections.
Captain Moussa Camara seized power in a December 2008 coup following the death of long-serving President Lansana Conte. [GR]