The communications regulator (CSC) accused TV5Monde of spreading “malicious insinuations” and “disinformation” about Burkina Faso’s transitional government.
Previously, the regulator had suspended French newspaper Le Monde, British publication The Guardian, and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW).
In its latest action on Tuesday, the CSC also fined TV5Monde 50 million CFA francs ($82,000).
The CSC criticized the broadcaster for recently hosting Newton Ahmed Barry, a critic of the military regime who led the election commission from 2014 to 2021.
TV5Monde had already been suspended on April 28 for two weeks after airing a Human Rights Watch report that accused the military of killing civilians.
Since Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in a coup in September 2022, multiple foreign news outlets – mostly French – have been temporarily or indefinitely shuttered in the West African country.
