“Without contesting the freedom of the channel’s editorial choices, the government nevertheless questions the ethics that govern the professional practice of journalism on France 24,” he said. In a screen grab from video, France 24 journalist Wassim Nasr is seen in a March 6, 2023, segment featuring excerpts of his interview with the head of a regional al-Qaida affiliate that prompted France 24's suspension in Burkina Faso.
VOA reached out to Burkinabe authorities for comments, but inquiries went unanswered at the time of publication.īurkina Faso government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo said the France 24 interview with the head of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, amounted to acting as a mouthpiece for the terror group. “And they are very scared of speaking out about things that are happening and what's going wrong in the country.” “When we speak to Burkinabe journalists or human rights activists or social or civil society activists, they all feel that banning free press is happening today, bit by bit,” Nasr told VOA.
The journalist who conducted the interview, Wassim Nasr, told VOA that the Burkinabe leadership has been looking for a reason to shut down the network as part of an ongoing effort to control the flow of information in the country. The journalist whose interview with a terrorist organization resulted in Burkina Faso suspending France 24 has spoken with VOA about what he says is a decline in media freedoms in the country.īurkina Faso’s military government suspended the international broadcaster after it aired an excerpt of an interview with the head of a regional al-Qaida affiliate earlier this month.
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