According to an AFP dispatch, Guinea's High Authority for Communication (HAC) asked Canal+ on Saturday, December 9, to remove Espace FM, Espace TV, Evasion FM, and Evasion TV, popular radio and television channels in Guinea, from its offering until further notice.
The authorities had already taken similar measures on December 6 against Djoma Radio and Television, citing "national security" reasons in both cases, without providing further details.
This decision follows a long list of suspensions or bans that have been imposed since the beginning of the year in several French-speaking sub-Saharan African countries.
Among the most recent decisions was that taken in early December by BURKINA FASO, which ordered the "immediate suspension until further notice" of Radio France Internationale (RFI) on the grounds that RFI had relayed an "intimidating message from a terrorist leader." This suspension was followed shortly thereafter by the banning of the newspaper Le Monde and the expulsion of its correspondent and that of the newspaper Libération.
It should be noted that the LCI news channel was also suspended for three months in BURKINA FASO last July, and that RFI and France 24 were suspended last August in NIGER and have also been suspended since 2022 in MALI.