LuxuryM
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LuxuryM
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| In Paris.







Senegal's 🇸🇳 major TV stations went blank, radio outlets were silent, and most of the daily newspapers did not publish editions on Tuesday as media organizations in the country staged a rare blackout day to protest President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's government crackdown they say targets them directly and is aimed at curtailing press freedoms. The move comes as tensions have been rising between media organizations and government, triggering international concerns over press freedoms in one of Africa’s most stable democracies. Senegal’s main media companies have accumulated massive debt over the years, threatening the sector’s economic survival. The Senegalese Council of Press Distributors and Publishers, an organization representing both private and public media companies, says that the government has frozen banks accounts belonging to the media outlets, allegedly for owing back taxes, “seized production equipment” and “unilaterally and illegally terminated advertising contracts.” “For nearly three months, the Senegalese press has experienced one of the darkest phases of its history,” the organization wrote in the editorial. #Senegal. Source: @AP.





























