Journalists in Ivory Coast are raising the alarm about what they say is government attempts to shackle their profession and control it.
While press freedom is more established there than in other west African countries, it remains precarious.
In recent months, the government's bid to impose a new leader on the National Union of Ivorian Journalists has sparked protests over an "unprecedented" bid to impose control.
In March, the International Federation of Journalists condemned the authorities' "blatant interference" in the UNJCI, the profession's main trade union.
Ivory Coast and Benin also face a complaint filed by press freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) over a recent crackdown against Beninese journalist Hugues Comlan Sossoukpe,
