Media in Senegal

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The media in Senegal includes broadcasters as well as print and internet media. With the Agence de presse senegalaise (APS) as the state news agency, Senegal has the most widely used news source in French-speaking West Africa. The media landscape is diverse, there are a large number of independent newspapers. In addition, there are radio stations and TV offers broadcasting in urban and rural areas. Some media groups also offer online appearances. Internet networking in the subregional area is comparatively good.

broadcast

The largest media provider in Senegal is the state radio and television company Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (RTS). It has a large number of radio and television channels, including regional channels.

There are several private radio stations, notably Sud FM and Walfadjri and RFM . Almost all broadcasters are also represented on the Internet.

Newspapers

Le Soleil is the largest public daily newspaper and is close to the government. There are also independent daily newspapers, such as Sud quotidien , Walfadjri , Le Matin and Le Quotidien .

Freedom of the press

In terms of freedom of the press , Senegal is in the middle. The Press Freedom Index for 2008 rates Senegal as "partially free". The country is ranked 104th in the ranking of press freedom. In 2019, too, a look at the world map shows that press freedom in Senegal is above the African average.

There is no official censorship in Senegal, but journalists, especially under the presidency of Abdoulaye Wade , faced prison sentences for reporting critical of the regime. For example, Moussa Gueye, the executive editor of the private daily L'Exclusif , and its owner Pape Moussa Doucar, were arrested in 2007 for publishing a critical editorial entitled Late Outings at the Presidency: The Nocturnal Escapades of President Wade . The reason given for the restriction of the freedom of the press was to protect national security.

In addition to the state, Muslim brotherhoods play an important role in influencing the free press. Due to their enormous influence on the population and their social mediating function, the leaders have the opportunity to direct the reporting. Journalists continue to be intimidated, pressured and persecuted. Especially if they belong to brotherhoods themselves, they get into an identity crisis.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Foreign Office on the media in Senegal
  2. ↑ Media Freedom Index 2008 ( Memento from December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Freedom in the World 2019: Are there free and independent media?
  4. ↑ Freedom of the Press 2008: A Global Survey of Media Independence by Freedom House, Senegal Status: Partly free p. 284 in the Google book search
  5. ↑ Frank Wittmann in media issue January 12, 2007: Politics, media and religious identity. The transformation of the public arena in Senegal