Burkina Faso’s media regulator has banned a French television news program for three months, accusing it of disseminating false information regarding Islamist violence.
The CSC accused the station, LCI, of claiming that jihadists were moving quickly and that government troops were using local defense force volunteers as cannon fodder to protect themselves from the onslaught.
The government of Ouagadougou removed journalists from the French newspapers Le Monde and Liberation in April.
France 24 and Radio France International, two other broadcasters, have also been suspended indefinitely.
