Burkina Faso - Burkina Faso bans live political broadcasts for three months

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on Burkina Faso's Higher Council for Communication (CSC) to rescind the three-month ban on live radio and TV broadcasts announced last week, which constitutes a grave act of censorship in the run-up to next October's elections. When announcing the ban, which took effect on 7 May, the CSC referred to “numerous lapses” but did not go into detail. The CSC communiqué said public health programmes and programmes of a recreational, sentimental or cultural nature were (...)

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