Burkina Faso suspends more foreign media over killings coverage
A child who fled with his parents from attacks of armed militants in the Sahel region watches a woman on a bicycle at a camp for internally displaced people in Kaya, Burkina Faso November 23, 2020.
Burkina Faso has suspended a number of Western and African media over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the army of extrajudicial killings, its communications authority said on Sunday.
The move follows similar suspensions of BBC Africa and the US-funded Voice of America for reporting on the HRW investigation that alleged the Burkinabe military executed about 223 villagers in February as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with jihadist militants.
