RSF, reporters without borders, has published today wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 the following dispatch, expressing concern for two journalists in Conakry, who have received death threats.

Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried for the safety of Mouctar Bah, the Conakry correspondent of Agence France-Presse and Radio France Internationale, and Amadou Diallo, the BBC’s correspondent. After being threatened and roughed up by soldiers while covering the violent dispersal of an opposition demonstration two days ago in which hundreds died, they are now reportedly wanted by the military authorities.

Read full text (in English) here.

Here's an excerpt about the situation in Mamou, a Guinean town, from the blog Yolo in Guinea written by a Peace Corps volunteer:

Last Friday: I drive through Mamou, and see HUNDREDS of police officers and soldiers. With big guns. They have innondated the city, and are posted all over the place.

Last Saturday: Dadis leaves the capital Conakry for the FIRST time since he declared himself president. He decides that he’s going to make an appearance in Mamou (my hometown) and Labe (3 hrs north) to try and convince people to stop hating him. I woke up to the sound of a helicopter over my house and people yelling. Wait- Guinea has a helicopter? Anyway Dadis goes to these cities; rumor has it in Labe everyone purposefully stayed in their homes so as NOT to welcome him, and that soldiers took buses to surrounding villages paying people to come fill up the stadium and cheer for him, giving TV viewers the impression of popularity. He was here in Mamou, there were small groups of protestors (who may or may not have tried to open my car door) and things were calm and cool.

Monday: Two weeks earlier, a political demonstration had been organized, with the underlying message: Dadis, do NOT run for president at the end of January. Dadis said that the demonstrations were prohibitied. People went anyways. The military went buck wild. Shot 157 dead. 1,200 others injured. Women were raped and perversely abused at the site of the protests. Military stole random things (like my friend’s cell phones) and were actually using knives and bayonets.

Tuesday: Shortly after arriving at work, someone runs into our office saying that people have begun protesting in town here in Mamou. First we get put on “lockdown” at the office, but soon after we return home. Vehicles are hidden around town (so protestors can’t damage them) and I get a little freaked out. Protestors are fine, burning tires don’t mean a thing, but if the military starts running around with guns, that’s when all hell breaks loose. I stayed home for the rest of the day. The military never went out. Protestors went home. Mamou is cool, calm and collected. Mom and Dad, I repeat, Mamou is cool, calm and collected.

Read the rest at the blog Yolo in Guinea.

BarCamp Cameroon now have his own channel on stupeflix.tv !

Stupeflix is a REST web service that turns your pictures, videos, and

text into professional videos, Stupeflix.tv videos are automatically

generated from twitter and flickr data.

Link : http://stupeflix.tv/BarCampCameroon/

In addition to being a great space, PariSoMa also has the benefit of having a very solid internet connection that allows for 3Mb both down and up. Their wifi also never seems to have any problems with large groups connecting to it. This is probably due to their hosting a great many events as well as the coworking space happening during the day.

Call for Video

That fast upstream link at PariSoMa means that if anyone wants to broadcast live video from the event, you won't have any problems. While the focus will be on having barcamp sessions, we encourage people to shoot any interviews they like and to be creative with coverage. The organizers will be twitting and blogging about everything (as well as others we hope), so any way that video can work to fill in or complement, would be highly encouraged. Naturally, if anyone wants to let us know they're volunteering at africacodecamp@gmail.com, we'd appreciate it.