{"id":174445,"date":"2024-06-13T19:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-guinean-govt-shuts-down-major-private-media-outlets\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T19:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:24:06","slug":"west-africa-guinean-govt-shuts-down-major-private-media-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-guinean-govt-shuts-down-major-private-media-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Guinean Govt Shuts Down Major Private Media Outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Guinea&#8217;s junta has banned five prominent private media outlets, dealing another blow to the broadcast sector which has been reeling under various attacks by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">A ministerial decree dated May 21, 2024, issued by Fana Soumah, Minister of Information and Communication, cited &#8220;failure to comply with content specifications&#8221; as the reason for the closures. The affected broadcast stations are <em>Espace FM<\/em>, <em>Espace TV<\/em>, <em>Sweet FM<\/em> from the Hadafo Group; <em>Djoma FM<\/em> and <em>Djoma TV<\/em>; and <em>FIM FM<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406130028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea&#8217;s junta has banned five prominent private media outlets, dealing another blow to the broadcast sector which has been reeling under various attacks by the government. A ministerial decree dated May 21, 2024, issued by Fana Soumah, Minister of Information and Communication, cited &#8220;failure to comply with content specifications&#8221; as the reason for the closures. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,4357,1124,6016,7373,4959,257,17886,5990,5223,254,4375],"class_list":["post-174445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-guinea-news","tag-guinean","tag-major","tag-media","tag-news","tag-outlets","tag-private","tag-shuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}