Burkina Faso has suspended more Western and African media outlets for their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the army of extrajudicial killings.
The latest action which was announced by the country’s communications authority on Sunday, follows earlier suspensions of BBC Africa and the U.S.-funded Voice of America for their reporting on the HRW investigation, which alleged that the Burkinabe military executed approximately 223 villagers in February as part of an operation targeting civilians accused of collaborating with jihadist militants.
The country’s communications council, led by the junta, disclosed that French television network TV5Monde’s broadcasts will be halted for two weeks, and access to its website will be blocked.
Additionally, it stated that the websites of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, French newspapers Le Monde and Ouest-France, British newspaper The Guardian, and African agencies APA and Ecofin have been blocked indefinitely.
