Burkina Faso's military government has suspended the broadcast of France's RFI radio in the Sahel West African state over what it said were false reports and giving voice to Islamist militants, a ...

Ouagadougou (AFP) – Burkina Faso on Saturday ordered the immediate suspension of Radio France Internationale (RFI) broadcasts, accusing it of putting out a "message of intimidation" attributed to a ...

Burkina Faso's military government has suspended the broadcast of France's RFI radio in the Sahel West African state over what it said were false reports and giving voice to Islamist militants, a ...

It is the second West African country under military rule, after Mali, to take the French broadcaster off the airwaves this year. RFI had contributed to "a desperate manoeuvre of terrorist groups" to ...