{"id":9286,"date":"2023-09-26T13:33:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:33:24","slug":"burkina-faso-junta-suspends-french-magazine-over-untruthful-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9286\/burkina-faso-junta-suspends-french-magazine-over-untruthful-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso junta suspends French magazine over ‘untruthful’ articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burkina Faso<\/a>‘s military junta on Monday suspended the French news magazine Jeune Afrique for publishing “untruthful” articles that reported tension and discontent within the country’s armed forces, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Jeune Afrique’s suspension marks the latest escalation in a crackdown on French media since the West African country fell under military rule last year.<\/p>\n

The statement accused the publication of seeking to discredit the armed forces and of manipulating information to “spread chaos” following two articles published over the past four days.<\/p>\n

Jeune Afrique said the ban was yet another attack on freedom of information in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n

“This decision… contributes a little more to making the region, and Burkina Faso in particular, a no-information zone,” the magazine said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that its management and editorial staff hoped the government would reconsider the ban.<\/p>\n

Relations between Burkina Faso and its former coloniser France have soured since frustrations over worsening insecurity linked to a jihadist insurgency spurred two military takeovers last year.<\/p>\n

These tensions have led to expulsion orders for diplomatic officials, including the\u00a0French ambassador\u00a0to the country, and fuelled a backlash against foreign media.<\/p>\n

The junta has already suspended French-funded broadcasters\u00a0Radio France Internationale\u00a0and France24 for allegedly giving voice to Islamist militants staging an insurgency across the Sahel region south of the Sahara. Both media organisations have denied the accusations.<\/p>\n

French television channel La Chaine Info, part of private broadcaster TF1, was suspended for three months in June for airing a report on the insurgency that the military said “lacked objectivity”. TF1 declined to comment at the time.<\/p>\n

In April, two French journalists working for newspapers Le Monde and Liberation were\u00a0expelled\u00a0from the country.<\/p>\n

Liberation said the suspension was unjustified as the two journalists were of “perfect integrity” and had all their paperwork in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Burkina Faso‘s military junta on Monday suspended the French news magazine Jeune Afrique for publishing “untruthful” articles that reported tension and discontent within the country’s armed forces, it said in a statement. Jeune Afrique’s suspension marks the latest escalation in a crackdown on French media since the West African country fell under military rule last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Reuters","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,27],"tags":[208,290,1502],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-west-africa","tag-burkina-faso","tag-france","tag-jeune-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}