Guinea: Radio journalist stabbed by armed men

Colleagues of a radio journalist who was attacked by unknown assailants on July 16, 2010 are suspecting the military of being behind the attack. “Mansaré must have been a victim of an action carried out by persons hostile to his reports possibly, it is a settlement of scores,” according to a colleague of Mansare who spoke to the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)’s correspondent in Guinea on condition of anonymity.

The correspondent reported that Etienne Mansaré, a military reporter of privately-owned Conakry-based Sabari  FM  was stabbed  in the  back, while  on  his way home  after  his  political  programme “Sous le Cocotier.”

The journalist  told  the  correspondent  from his sick bed that he joined a taxi cab in which the four men were already  seated.  Two of them pointed pistols at his head before stabbing him.

The correspondent said Mansaré was placed on the car and the assailants sped off, making him fall in the process. He became unconscious and was rescued by a passer-by who took him to the hospital.

Mansaré’s three cellular phones, dictaphone, press card and an unspecified amount of money were taken away.

MFWA condemns this barbaric act, which undermines the safety of journalists and also serves as a setback for the progress being made   for democratization in Guinea.

We call on the authorities to investigate this act and bring the perpetrators to book.

For more information please contact::

Kwame Karikari (Prof)
Executive Director
MFWA
Accra
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- July 22, 2010 by Media Foundation For West Africa
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