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full screen The West African nation will be governed from 2022 by a military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré. Archive image. Photo: Kilaye Bationo/AP/TT
Burkina Faso on Tuesday shut down French TV5 for six months for spreading “disinformation”, according to the country’s communications authority.
The TV channel had this week invited Newton Ahmed Barry, a well-known critic of the country’s military junta. Already at the end of April, the channel was shut down for two weeks, after reporting on a report by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch that accused the military of a massacre of civilians in February.
Several foreign news media, including the British The Guardian, the French Le Monde and the German Deutsche Welle, have previously been subject to similar blocking.
The West African nation will be ruled from 2022 by a military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré.