Africa
Burkina Faso suspends more foreign news media over massacre reports
3 years ago(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 29, 2018 shows a policeman patrolling in the center of Ouahigouya, eastern Burkina Faso. - Between 12 and 14 people were killed last week in northern Burkina Faso, a region that has been battered by jihadist insurgents, local inhabitants said on March 6, 2023. "A group of terrorists" on March 2, 2023 attacked the village of Aorema, near the town of Ouahigouya, they told AFP. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP)
Burkina Faso has suspended a swathe of international news organisations, some indefinitely, for airing accusations of an army massacre of civilians, with the communications regulator CSC adding more outlets over the weekend.
