Samba Koné of the ANP calls for "amending ordinance" of the 2017 press law

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Connectionivoirienne May 20, 2021 11:40 a.m.

Samba Koné of the ANP calls for "amending ordinance" of the 2017 press law

Djamal AKINBOLA The president of the National Press Authority, Samba Koné mentioned "some shortcomings" of the law on the legal regime of the press which entered into force in March 2018 and requested the adoption of "a modifying ordinance to the 'effect of correcting them', on the sidelines of a visit by Minister of Communication Amadou Coulibaly to the regulator's headquarters on Wednesday.

Continuing, the president of the ANP revealed "some difficulties" in connection with the online press because of "the supports", but "especially the dynamism and volatility of this constantly changing sector" and "difficulties of setting implementation of ANP decisions ”.

Work between my predecessors and the actors of the sector made it possible to shed light on the provisions concerned ", said Mr.

Koné" The new Council that I lead accepts the said difficulties and will keep the said memorandum at your disposal so that under your auspices, an order amending the law is taken, in order to correct them, ”he added to the Minister of Communication.

In addition, the law mentions that "the offense of defamation is not constituted when the veracity of the facts qualified as defamatory is established, except (among others) when the imputation refers to facts which go back more than ten years.

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