It added that the decision to suspend its broadcasting was made without prior notice and without implementation of procedures put in place by Burkina Faso’s communications regulator. ![]() RFI responded by saying it “protests against the totally unfounded accusations calling into question its professionalism”. “In view of all of the above, the government has decided the immediate suspension of the broadcast of all RFI programmes across the national territory,” said the statement signed by government spokesman Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo. The government said RFI also repeated a press report – which it denied – that Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power in a coup in September, had said there had been an attempted coup trying to unseat him. In a statement on Saturday, the government said the state-run RFI broadcast a message earlier that day from a leader of an armed group in which he threatened the population. ![]() Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the broadcast of France’s Radio France Internationale in the West African state over what it said were false reports and giving voice to armed groups. Mali is ranked 99th out of 180 countries in RSF's 2021 World Press Freedom Index. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has been cracking down on freely reported and reliable news reporting that competes with its propaganda. Operation Collateral Freedom has also unblocked other news sites in Russia, including Deutsche Welle and Meduza. RSF already restored access to the RFI site in Russia on 15 April, just a few hours after it was blocked on the Russian government’s orders. Collateral Freedom is able to quickly restore access to a blocked website by creating an exact copy or “mirror” of the site and placing it on a content delivery network (CDN) that hosts many other services.Īuthoritarian governments cannot block access to the CDN without suffering the collateral damage of blocking access to all of the other services provided by the CDN, which could have all sorts of negative impacts in their country. RSF’s Operation Collateral Freedom is backed by an alliance of hackers, ICT specialists and engineers based in several European countries. We are happy to provide this service to RFI and France 24. “Restoring online access for Malian Internet users to these leading media outlets, which produce quality, independent and uncompromising news reporting, sends a strong signal to all those whose right to news and information is flouted. “ RFI and France 24 occupy a prominent place in the Malian media landscape,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. Mali’s media regulator, the High Authority for Communication (HAC), nonetheless announced on 25 April that the suspension was definitive. ![]() RSF condemned the suspensions at the time as a blow to media independence and as an attack on Malians themselves. The reporting by the French broadcasters was branded as “media hype” aimed at “destabilising the political transition” and “discrediting” the Malian army. ![]() Abdoulaye Maïga, the minister for territorial administration and decentralisation, that the junta announced RFI and France 24 ’s suspension last month after RFI broadcast a report about summary executions and looting by Malian soldiers and Russian mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, whose presence in Mali has been widely documented since the start of the year. The sites were created as part of Operation Collateral Freedom, which RSF launched in 2015 and which is currently enabling 47 websites in 24 countries (including eight sites in Russa) to circumvent censorship by their governments. Mali’s military junta suspended over-the-air and satellite transmission of RFI and France 24 broadcasts on 17 March after they reported alleged human rights violations by the Malian army and Russian mercenaries.īut thanks to RSF’s creation of mirror sites, RFI ’s content can now be accessed via this link and France 24 ’s by this link.
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