Souleymane Diallo, founder of Le Lynx, died in Canada

By declaring, at the beginning of January, to a journalist from the French daily Libération that “[his] ambition is to die before Le Lynx”, the satirical weekly he had founded, did Souleymane Diallo imagine that he would achieve this fatal objective so quickly? At the time, the Guinean journalist, hoisted on the last rampart of press freedom trampled by those in power, was recovering from a stroke in Canada. He died there on Monday June 1st. The question now arises as to whether The Lynx will survive for a long time. We contacted him by telephone at the beginning of May. He spoke, not without apprehension, of the prospect of his return to Guinea. “The Lynx is still standing, where many others have been forced to close their doors, but we are suffocating,” he explained to us. “All means are used to silence dissonant voices, even kidnappings,” he added.