Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting after they aired a rights report accusing the army of attacks on civilians in its battle against jihadists.
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"The programmes of these two international radio networks broadcasting from Ouagadougou have been suspended for a period of two weeks," Burkina's communications authority, the CSC, announced late on Thursday.and the VOA had aired and also published a report on their digital platforms"accusing the Burkina army of abuses against the civilian population".
The approach of the BBC and VOA"undermines the cardinal principles of information processing in that it constitutes disinformation likely to bring discredit to the Burkinabe army" and could also disturb the public order.
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