Over the course of the last 5 months eight media houses in four countries have been attacked, in instances where 13 journalists and media workers have been assaulted and equipment destroyed.
Several members of IFEX have joined rights-based organisations in petitioning Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embaló to improve the media freedom landscape, and thoroughly investigate serious media rights violations and ensure the prosecution of the perpetrators.
After what authorities said was a coup by drug dealers aiming to kill President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, a new spate of violence against critics of the government is compunding the feeling of insecurity in Guinea-Bissau.
Guinea-Bissau journalist Maimuna Bari is currently in a coma, after sustaining spinal injuries following an attack on Rádio Capital FM by men in military uniform.