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Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by NairaOcean: 10:57am On Apr 26
Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting for a fortnight for airing a rights report accusing the army of attacks on civilians, authorities said.

International NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said soldiers in Burkina Faso’s jihadist-hit north had killed at least 223 villagers, including 56 children, in two revenge attacks on February 25.

“The programmes of these two international radio networks broadcasting from Ouagadougou have been suspended for a period of two weeks,” the communications authority (CSC) announced late on Thursday.

It said the decision had been taken because BBC Africa and the VOA aired and also published a report on their digital platforms “accusing the Burkina army of abuses against the civilian population”.


The body said the report contained “hasty and biased declarations without tangible proof against the Burkinabe army”.

Burkina Faso has not commented on the report. The West African nation has been battered by a jihadist insurgency that swept in from neighbouring Mali in 2015.
https://www.channelstv.com/2024/04/26/burkina-faso-suspends-bbc-voice-of-america-for-two-weeks/amp/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1GJnA5BcQKXuMC4Xstq1KGRcSAWTvemRgwvnbdruBqH7Tg3SRIWYPMcpA_aem_AfdBRqsMpklIxBWFw8xZYJY8GKgg1pTtyOcxwYzcz7Saa74-O9tWs7aso_TraJqW5m-uLOr1T1dU1k2Nn3INGyd5

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by SALLYBERRY01(m): 11:25am On Apr 26
Terrible people

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Projen: 11:25am On Apr 26
Ftc
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Donchieli: 11:25am On Apr 26
Hwhe
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by moscobabs(m): 11:25am On Apr 26
Nigeria Should suspend BBC Yoruba too.

Den don show Chelsea fans shege

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Abaje195(m): 11:25am On Apr 26
grin we
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by oyeb15: 11:26am On Apr 26
Snitch stations , safe houses for under cover M16 and CIA agents.

Cover your events, battles, study your capabilities, weapons, responses and coordinates and upload it into their archives in London.

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Dpharisee: 11:26am On Apr 26
Good one, many people don't know that Nigeria civil war was started by BBC broadcast in Hausa service from Kaduna telling northerners that Igbos were slaughtering northerners in Enugu, anger flayed up and the pogrom against Igbos started leading to the killings of hundreds of thousands of Igbos residing in the North.

At the end it turned out to be fake news, there was no massacre of northerners in Enugu, the northerners killed were political leaders (Sardauna, Balewa and some military officers in theNorth and not in Enugu) by coup plotters led by Major Nzeogwu who didn't consult Igbos or Yorubas or their various tribes before carrying out the coup that was erroneously tagged "Igbo Coup" by the British Ambassador and spread wide by BBC.
The country is yet to come out of those well packaged hatred which has been passed on to generations even in this forum.

These African revolutionary leaders in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have done well by banning foreign media broadcasting directly from and to their people, Russia media is blocked in many European countries by the same people telling us about Press Freedom in Africa wink

I was deceived in 2011 by western media into thinking that Late Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi was evil only to later find out that Libyans actually had the highest standard of living in Africa and far ahead of many European countries under Gaddafi, same way they lied about Saddam Hussein possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction that led to Iraq war and death of over a million Iraqis.

If CIA and MI6 want to start a riot in the North to achieve a particular aim such as putting the Govt under pressure or to discredit Tinubu for instance all they have to do is for BBC Hausa to broadcast that Yorubas are killing Hausas and Fulanis in Osogbo or Umuahia and they will start burning down Yoruba and Igbo businesses, that's the kind of control that Britain still retains over northern Nigeria using their BBC, ever wondered why for 8 Years the best interviews granted by Buhari was to BBC Hausa service which is later translated into English for us to discuss on Nairaland?

OAFMods:
Some of you igbos too de lie. When bbc start to work for naija that you claiming it started Nigeria civil. The BBC from British that your educated elite can barely hear is that what Almajiri will be listening to over there transistor radio in the 60s to start a civil war.
Sorry I am too advanced for your tribal rants on this platform, read through my comment again, it was meant for intelligent reviewers with open mind and not for close knitted bigots. Thanks

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by sofeo(m): 11:26am On Apr 26
Okie, our Naija counterpart no get the balls, na only copy copy and eye service them sabi do.

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by PussyOdour(m): 11:26am On Apr 26
shocked


One of the most føolish station ever on earth. God bless Burkina Faso for suspending the propaganda peddling station, as a matter of fact, the suspension should be life.

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by UmehzEmmanuel(m): 11:26am On Apr 26
News stations should drill their employees on the far reaching effects of biased or lopsided reportage.

Especially on volatile security issues as wars and counter-terrorism.
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Naira20: 11:26am On Apr 26
Lol...all these "small" countries get mind pass Mr. Illegitimate o.
Till today Niger no send France.
See how Burkina Faso run England+U.S+France+ Tinubu street.

I won't be surprised Tinubu signed the LGTBQ nonsense as part of the agreement he has with the West for them to foist him on Nigerians.
Notice how only the Nigerian state isn't speaking against LGBTQ. The Bobrisky case was organized but Nigerians saw through it

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Reminderz: 11:27am On Apr 26
this is a good development, away from the shackles of the West, the way una take penetrate Libya to kill Gaddafi nor fit work again...

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by maxiuc(m): 11:27am On Apr 26
grin
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by damkin24(m): 11:27am On Apr 26
Their business
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Eweduses: 11:27am On Apr 26
The same way Tinupoo needs to be suspended from office because he's a drug baron.

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by aikyg(m): 11:28am On Apr 26
Inukwa! Make una see small Burkina Faso. Small yanch dey shake. 😂 😂 😂

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Lagosianswag: 11:29am On Apr 26
The Dividends of Dictatorship undecided

#ArmyArrangement

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by GabHarrincot: 11:32am On Apr 26
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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by stunnert(m): 11:32am On Apr 26
They've seen the negative sides of mainstream media
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Jovi10: 11:32am On Apr 26
Good all they know how to do is post propaganda news rubbishing African countries .

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by selleniza: 11:33am On Apr 26
These people are desperate to change the military regime to civilian govt.
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Kingpele(m): 11:34am On Apr 26
But why
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by silverlinen(m): 11:34am On Apr 26
Damnnn

Burkina Faso is a big country not like one other corntree headed by a drug Baron.

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by NkanuSon: 11:35am On Apr 26
Good

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Christistruth00: 11:37am On Apr 26
Bukina Faso Military Dictators Cooking up Congo

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by StaffofOrayan(m): 11:38am On Apr 26
BBC ! THE GREAT INVENTORS OF ''FARMER-HERDER CLASHES''
BASTARDDDS

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Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by Cmanforall: 11:38am On Apr 26
Okk
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by MorolayoVictor(m): 11:39am On Apr 26
BALLS MULTIPLIED
Re: Burkina Faso Suspends BBC, Voice Of America For Two Weeks by AnyanwuSilas: 11:39am On Apr 26
We want freedom

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