‘Walf will always stand’: anger in Senegal as TV channel suspended
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00:00 "Before we watched WOLF TV on channel 23."
00:05 While many TV channels in Senegal are still available, one is conspicuously missing.
00:12 WOLF TV hasn't broadcast in three days.
00:16 "I'm angry because before we could follow the news.
00:21 It's just wrong.
00:22 WOLF was our source of information."
00:29 Journalists here have suspended the channel's broadcast license, accusing it of calling
00:33 for violence during protest coverage on Sunday.
00:37 The journalists there are still publishing online as a gesture of resistance.
00:42 "WOLF will always stand, no matter how many blows we take.
00:47 It's the fourth time that they have cut our signal since March 2021, so we're used to
00:52 it.
00:53 Even this feels like a terrible blow.
00:55 We need to remind ourselves that we're living in a country where individual and collective
00:59 freedoms are being violated."
01:07 The suspension of WOLF TV is the latest in a long line of government overreaches, according
01:12 to this activist.
01:14 "Macky Sall's strategy is to control the narrative.
01:18 This involves threatening the press and forcing the media to censor itself.
01:21 Besides WOLF TV, no other media dares to cover protests on the ground."
01:29 The government's communications minister didn't respond to our interview request.
01:34 Many local journalists are calling for a nationwide media strike within the next few days.
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