Eugène Dié Kacou/CPJ Guest Blogger

In Ivory Coast, old struggles give way to new challenges
Independence came when I was attending school at the orientation college in Abidjan-Plateau, and when I was still sneaking to listen to the news on my father’s Grundig radio set. Today, I believe that genuine freedom of the press exists in our African countries. In Ivory Coast, for example, the new press law abolished prison…