Repression of Burkina Faso Media Continues With Ban

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Burkina Faso's government continues to hone its nationalistic treatment of news and information, the RSF reports. The Superior Council for Communication (CSC), Burkina Faso's national communications regulator, banned the rebroadcasting of foreign radio programmes until further notice after suspending VOA for three months.

Authorities in Burkina Faso on Monday suspended Voice of America for three months over comments made by one of the network's journalists.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Burkinabe authorities to lift the suspension of the U.S. Congress-funded broadcaster Voice of America , which is the latest… From the Chadian city of Mongo to the Soum province in Burkina Faso, over 500 community radio stations in the Sahel and neighbouring countries have joined Reporters Without Borders… The Committee to Protect Journalists has urged authorities in Burkina Faso to"do everything possible" to find three journalists who went missing under suspicious circuThe military junta in the country has continued its crackdown on foreign media institutions following an initial suspension of the BBC and...

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