Burkina Faso has expelled two French journalists working for newspapers Le Monde and Liberation, the two newspapers said on Sunday, accusing the authorities of seeking to stifle freedom of speech with an escalating crackdown on foreign media.
Liberation said its correspondent Agnès Faivre and Le Monde's Sophie Douce arrived in Paris early on Sunday after they were summoned separately for questioning by the military authorities on Friday and later notified of their expulsion.
There was no statement from the authorities in Burkina Faso and it was not immediately possible to reach them for comment.Relations between Paris and Ouagadougou have deteriorated sharply since Burkina Faso's military seized power in a coup last October. The junta has since ordered French troops to withdraw from the country and suspended broadcasts by France's RFI radio and television channel France 24.
Douce's reporting"obviously ended up seeming unbearable to the regime of Ibrahim Traoré, transition president for six months," he said. "These restrictions on freedom of information are unacceptable and the sign of a power that refuses to allow its actions to be questioned," it said.
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