Ivory Coast Papers Halt Publication, BBC and RFI Off the Air
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Ivory Coast’s eight privately owned opposition newspapers and one independent suspended publication starting yesterday to protest threats and harassment by the supporters of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo.
The dailies “are regularly threatened about attacks and acts of vandalism,” said an alliance of newspapers that back Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized winner of the Nov. 28 election.