Burkina Faso suspends French news channel over report on rebels | Armed Groups News

The move is the latest escalation in a crackdown on French-owned foreign media by the Burkinabe government in recent years.

Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended a French television news channel for a report on armed groups’ activity, which it said lacked objectivity and credibility, the latest escalation in a crackdown on French media.

Relations between Burkina Faso and its former coloniser France have soured since frustrations over worsening insecurity spurred two military takeovers last year.

French television channel La Chaine Info (LCI), of private broadcaster TF1, was…