Senegalese Ruling Party Member Calls for Attacks on Walfadjri Media Company, Journalists

Sylla, a member of Cojer (Convergence of Young Republicans), called for the arson and attacks on the Walfadjri journalists during a June 21 Facebook Live interview posted by privately owned news website Xibar24, according to CPJ’s review of the video. Walfadjri shares offices and journalists with Walf TV, one of its subsidiaries, and its radio, daily newspaper, and website branches.

In the video, Sylla expressed displeasure over Walf TV’s critical reporting on Senegalese President Macky Sall, although he did not cite a specific report, and added, “In other countries, they would have burned Walfadjri. Walfadjri must be burned. We need an attack on the journalists of Walfadjri to end this television,” according to CPJ’s review.