West Africa: Journalist Forced Into Exile After Death Threats Over Investigative Report

Guinean journalist, Ibrahima Sory Barry, publishing director of the online news portal Vérité 224, has gone into exile following death threats against himself and his family.

Barry had assisted a Canadian journalist with an investigation into the 2007 death of Rachelle Wrathmall, a Canadian citizen and former wife of Guinea’s opposition politician, Rafiou Sow.

In June 2026, Isabelle Hachey, a journalist with the Quebec-based newspaper, La Presse, travelled to Guinea to investigate Wrathmall’s…