The RCI is considered to be the most politicized and polarized country in the whole region. The entine of the audiovisual media in RCI is registered by the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA). 19 National Detelevision channels exist, public and private. This support has been developing all the more since the arrival of TNT in 2019. The RTI group is the state distribution organization.
On radio, 28 stations coexist. There are public, private, but also non-commercial, rural, confessional, private commercial, school radios, foreign and institutional. About fifty (associative) proximity radios are identified in the country. According to Médiamétrie in 2023, each day more than 64 % of individuals listen to the radio in RCI.
Also, more than 40 paper newspapers are officially listed. Weekly and daily newspapers are also part of this media landscape provided. The online press experienced a real boom in 2021, following the pandemic.
The media panorama does not stop there! Press agencies, unions and associations also have their share of merit in the development of the latter.
Controversial regulation
In RCI, the media have been governed by law since 1991. The main regulatory authorities are the HACA and the national press authority (ANP). The legal arsenal with which Côte d'Ivoire has to supervise the journalistic environment is a pioneer in the region.
Improvements and details are constantly made for this purpose. On February 7, law n ° 2022-978, amending law n ° 2017-867, was adopted. The goal is to clarify the text so as not to give way to any interpretation. Despite this, for Olivier Yoro, president of the organization of professional journalists from Côte d'Ivoire (OJPCI), legislation is still to be perfect: “ For us, article 90 which is within the law [Legal regime] serves us. This text which speaks of the attack on the security of the State and of the outrage to the Head of State is liberticide, it does not allow the journalist today to say working in peace. »»
Although in the right track, the exercise of the profession still seems complicated. For the time being, no journalist is held hostage. However, threats and assaults are frequently denounced by Amnesty International in times of political and social tensions.
Freedoms still to conquer
In 2017, the writer Abdoulaye Sanagre published " Côte d'Ivoire, journalism dying and the press collapsed. Diagnosis of a press at the bottom of the hole ” . In his work, he has a sad inventory of press freedom in the country. As a reminder, the R SF positions the country in 54th this year. In 2022, he won the 37th place . In 2021, the 66 e . Historically, this freedom undergoes a Yo-Yo effect over the years.
For the editorial director of the daily newspaper our way , efforts remain to be provided: “We still have a chilly administration and we also have a political class which tends to retain information […]. But, for the time being, we can say that there is not a general hostility of the State vis-à-vis journalists, even if we agree that there are sensitive questions as linked to defense, security and on which we must still make efforts. "
