Presidential Guards Beat Up Female Journalists

Esther Marie Samura and Frances Bernard Bundoh were on the presidential stand at the national stadium, covering the FIFA return leg of the qualifying match for the 2023 World Cup, when presidential guards threatened and brutally beat them. Both journalists sustained injuries; one was hospitalised over a fortnight with a "shifted back" and required correction surgery Abroad. The journalists lost cash, their work tools including mobile phones, during the incident.