RSF calls on the UN Working Group on Enforced Dis appearances to investigate the disappearance of Guinea Journalist Habib Marouane Camara

The owner and manager of news website Le Révélateur 224, Habib Marouane Camara, was abductedby suspected members of the military on the evening of 3 December in the Lambanyi commune of the capital, Conakry, and is still missing. RSF has filed a report with the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to further investigate the journalist's fate.

This report follows several appeals by RSF to Guinean authorities and regional bodies. On 2 June - almost six months after Habib Marouane Camara's abduction - RSF, along with 105 African journalists and press freedom organisations, appealedto the Guinean authorities to shed light on this case.

On 3 May, RSF addressedthe African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, Gambia and urged the Commission to question the Guinean government. On 28 January, RSF also referred the case to the ACHPR's Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa.

Unprecedented media crackdown in Guinea

2024 marked a turning point in the repression of journalism in Guinea. On 21 May 2024, the Minister of Information and Communication illegally ordered the shutdownof the independent media outlets Djoma TV, Djoma FM, Espace FM, Espace TV, Sweet FMand FIM FM without prior warning. These censored outlets are some of the country's largest private media groups and all published independent content that challenged those in power.

Out of the 180 countries and territories ranked in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, Guinea saw the biggest drop, falling 25 places from the previous year. It now places 103rd out of 180 countries and territories.