Senegal jumped 20 places in the World Press Freedom 2025 Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) ranking, hoisting itself with 74th position. This significant progress comes in a tense regional context, where the conditions for exercising journalism remain a major challenge.
Senegal jumped 20 places in the World Press Freedom 2025 Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) ranking, hoisting itself with 74th position. This significant progress comes in a tense regional context, where the conditions for exercising journalism remain a major challenge.
In several sub -Saharan African countries, journalists continue to deal with political pressures, threats of violence and restrictions on their freedom of expression. Although some countries have made reforms, legal restrictions, acts of censorship and harassment practices remain common in the region. This further complicates the work of journalists, who fight to guarantee a free and independent media space.
The RSF report stresses that Senegal has started a series of transparency reforms in the allocation of public aid to the media, a key element of this improvement. However, although these reforms have been praised by some, they continue to arouse criticism among professionals in the sector.
The report also mentions that the situation has improved with regard to direct judicial and administrative pressures. However, practices such as the suspension of advertising agreements and tax controls remain challenges for certain media players.
RSF calls for strengthening this progress by adopting a clearer regulatory framework and a continuous dialogue between authorities and press professionals in order to guarantee a free, pluralist and economically viable media environment.
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