2023-12-03 10:14:42
The world deplores the decision taken on Saturday December 2, 2023 by the government of Burkina Faso to suspend him from “all broadcast media” after the publication the day before of an article about a bloody attack in the north of the country carried out by the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM).
This article entitled “In Burkina Faso, the propaganda war rages after the jihadist attack on Djibo” relates the heavy toll of an offensive carried out by the terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda. According to the UN, 40 civilians died in this attack while Burkinabe security sources had mentioned ” a few “ soldiers killed.
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The Monde condemns the accusations of the Burkinabe government which describes its work as “tendentious” and believes that he “chose his side”, implying that he had taken the side of terrorist groups. So many allegations that are as false as they are intolerable.
The world only did his job, with complete impartiality and independence. To produce this article, multiple sources were contacted – local, diplomatic, associative, civil and military – in order to report as closely as possible the situation in Djibo, which has become a city inaccessible to the press. The Burkinabe government was also contacted so that it could react to our information and give its version of the events that occurred on site, but as every time for almost a year, it did not respond to our requests for information. interviews.
This suspension comes after the expulsion from the country of our correspondent in April, without any official reason having been transmitted. It also follows that of many international media. At the end of September, the monthly Young Africa had been suspended. In July, the television channel LCI had already experienced this fate, after France 24 in March and RFI in December 2022.
Sanctions against The Monde seem to respond to the desire on the part of the Burkinabé authorities to prevent the dissemination of independent information on the deterioration of the security situation in the country, while Captain Ibrahim Traoré took power in a coup d’état ago fourteen months promising a return to peace.
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