Burkina Faso Suspends French News Channel Over Report On Rebels

 

Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended a French television news channel for a report on armed groups’ activity, which it said lacked objectivity and credibility, the latest escalation in a crackdown on French media.

Relations between Burkina Faso

and its former coloniser France have soured since frustrations over worsening insecurity spurred two mili French television channel La Chaine Info (LCI), of private broadcaster TF1, was suspended for three months from June 23 over a report aired at the end of April, according to a statement by the national media regulator published on Thursday.

The media regulator said the report overplayed the scale of the insurgency and “seditiously” exposed “unverified” failures in Burkina Faso’s military response to the crisis.

TF1 did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The government has already suspended French-funded broadcasters Radio France Internationale and France24

for allegedly giving voice to armed groups active across the Sahel region south of the Sahara.

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