Burkina Faso - Council suspends investigative magazine for one month

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is worried about the investigative bimonthly L'Evènement's sudden suspension by Burkina Faso's High Council for Communication (CSC). The magazine has been suspended for a month from 19 February for allegedly revealing “military secrets.” The sanction was imposed because an article in the magazine's 10 February issue about an attack on a munitions depot in Yimdi by former members of the presidential guard was accompanied a map of the various munitions depots used by (...)

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