Media crisis in Chad. 6 days before the legislative elections, the private media of the written press, radio and online are following a white day of general strike Monday December 23. This is at the call of several collectives and unions, who are rebelling against the treatment reserved for them by the media regulatory authority in the country, Hama.
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With our correspondent in Ndjamena, Victor Mauriat
Despite the suspension by the Supreme Court of the ban on online media from broadcasting audiovisual content by Hama, the media, on strike since December 7, fear that the media regulatory authority of the Chad does not stop there and therefore continue their movement.
“ We always remain vigilant. Hama will perhaps appeal, I don’t know. Now the strike is until Tuesday. But Hama must also be able to accept these decisions of the Supreme Court and simply cancel decision number 55 », explains Gérard Kétong Daliam, the editor-in-chief of N’Djam Post.
“ A blackout across the entire territory »
Tuesday, December 24, the strike will be joined by all private media, radio and written press, to also demand the subsidies provided for by law, not paid this year by Hama. They ask for between 1 and 4 million francs per media. Juda Allahondoum, president of the media group Le Visionnaire and of the Patronat de la presse chadiane, announces that he will not hesitate to go even further.
“ If no solution is found, we will have a blackout across the entire national territory. The media are not going to talk about the elections that are underway. The media will simply stop covering anything related to the December 29 election “, he assures.
Tuesday, December 24, private media promise to return their badges and vests given by Hama for these elections.
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