4/9/2023 0 Comments Rfi france radio international![]() ![]() The decision comes as relations between France and its former colonies Burkina Faso and Mali continue to sour over seeming French inefficiency in tackling armed groups which occupied northern Mali in 2012 and have spread to neighbouring states. RFI Afrique radio, which has one of the largest footprints across French-speaking Africa, added that it will explore ways to restore its broadcasting.īurkina Faso is the second West African nation to suspend RFI’s broadcast after neighbouring Mali’s military government did so in March. It added that the decision to suspend its broadcasting was made without prior notice and without implementation of procedures put in place by Burkina Faso’s communications regulator. RFI responded by saying it “protests against the totally unfounded accusations calling into question its professionalism”. ![]() ![]() “In view of all of the above, the government has decided the immediate suspension of the broadcast of all RFI programmes across the national territory,” said the statement signed by government spokesman Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo. The government said RFI also repeated a press report – which it denied – that Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power in a coup in September, had said there had been an attempted coup trying to unseat him. In a statement on Saturday, the government said the state-run RFI broadcast a message earlier that day from a leader of an armed group in which he threatened the population. Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the broadcast of France’s Radio France Internationale in the West African state over what it said were false reports and giving voice to armed groups. ![]()
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