Niger: One-month ban on RFI broadcasts fuels concern about rapid decline in press freedom

Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about a rapid deterioration in press freedom in Niger, especially in the north, following the imposition on 19 July 2007 of a one-month ban on the retransmission of French public radio station Radio France Internationale's (RFI) programmes throughout the country. "There have been many press freedom violations since fighting broke out in the north of the country," the organisation said.