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Access to Chad’s largest online news platform has been blocked since Friday, an organization for Chadian online media reported.

The group said the website of Tchadinfos.com, the Sahel country’s leading news organization, was taken offline after it refused to comply with a request from former adviser to Chadian President Abakar Manany.

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Access to Chad’s largest online news platform has been blocked since Friday, an organization for Chadian online media reported.

The group said the website of Tchadinfos.com, the Sahel country’s leading news organization, was taken offline after it refused to comply with a request from former adviser to Chadian President Abakar Manany.

“A few weeks ago, Mr Manany, through his lawyers, demanded that Tchadinfos delete all the articles written about him. We refused to remove them because they are factual articles,” the website’s director general, Mamadou Djimtebaye, told AFP.

“He then contacted our US-based host through his lawyers in South Africa to suspend us,” Djimtebaye added.

Chad’s online media organization condemned “serious attacks on freedom of the press and freedom of information” in a statement and called for an independent investigation into Manany and his “potential accomplices.”

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Manany did not respond to AFP’s requests for comment.

Tchadinfos operates a website as well as a radio station and a television channel in Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world.

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