Chad: At Least Three Newspapers Halt Publication, Union Calls On Radio Stations to Drop Programming to Protest State of Emergency

Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)

25 February 2008

Chad is now one of the few African countries without an effective independent press since a state of emergency was declared on 15 February 2008, with journalists fleeing abroad to escape arrest or falling silent in protest against censorship and "very serious" official threats, Reporters Without Borders said.