The Board to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called for the launch of 75 -year-old Adama Keita, the papa of a Guinean Reporter, Maoudou Babila Keita, that was abducted by unknown people in Nzérékoré on September 29, 2025, more than a year after Babila took off the country adhering to an attempted kidnapping
According to CPJ’s Francophone Africa rep:
The scenarios of Elhadj Adama Keita’s kidnapping raise fears that he is being punished for the journalism of his child, Mamoudou Babila Keita. Guinean authorities should guarantee that Adama Keita is reunited with his family members and allow the media to run openly.
Babila has ever since denounced the kidnapping of his father, claiming it is an attempt by the authorities to push him right into surrendering. According to regional media, the journalist took off the country back in July 2024 after a kidnapping effort that preceded his engagement in a public argument with local youth to share his views on the conduct of the military change underway in our country.
Regional news electrical outlets have likewise reported on press releases by NGOs such as Forces-Vives , which has actually also labelled the abduction as targeted and linked to the reporter’s essential position towards the authorities in power, mentioning that it is an attempt at scare tactics aimed at restricting civil liberty in addition to the right to human self-respect.
This incident underscores a rise in media censorship in West Africa given that the entering power of armed forces juntas in 2021, which has been coupled with reported situations of kidnapping of reporters and lobbyists
The city’s district attorney has ever since bought investigations right into the kidnapping.