2023-08-11 11:04:40
The transitional government in Burkina Faso has decided to suspend “until further notice” the broadcasting of Radio Oméga, one of the most listened to in the country, after the broadcast on Thursday of an interview “spangled with insulting remarks against of the new Nigerien authorities”.
The government “takes full responsibility for the decision to suspend from this Thursday, August 10 and until further notice, the broadcasting of Radio Omega programs in the name of the best interests of the Nation”, indicates the Minister of Communication Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo in a press release.
Radio Omega, a subsidiary of the Omega Media group which also has a television channel, owned by journalist and former Foreign Minister Alpha Barry, stopped broadcasting after the press release was broadcast, AFP noted.
This decision follows the broadcast on Radio Oméga of an interview, during the program “L’invité de la drafting”, with the spokesperson of a movement recently created in Niger which wishes to restore President Mohamed Bazoum, overthrown by a coup on July 26.
In this interview, Ousmane Abdoul Moumouni would have made “insulting remarks against the new Nigerien authorities”, according to Mr. Ouédraogo, also spokesman for the Burkinabè government.
According to the Burkinabè government, Ousmane Abdoul Moumouni’s organization “clearly militates for violence and war against the sovereign people of Niger” and the desire of his movement is to put President Bazoum back in power by “all means”.
The transitional authorities of Burkina Faso, who came to power by a coup in September 2022, very quickly showed their solidarity with the soldiers who took power in Niger.
In particular, they claimed that any military intervention against Niger would be considered a “declaration of war” against them.
Several media have been suspended in Burkina in recent months, including the French media LCI, RFI and France 24. In early April, the correspondents of Liberation and Le Monde had been expelled.
With AFP
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