Burkina Faso shut down French TV5 on Tuesday for six months for spreading "disinformation", according to the country's communications authority.
The TV channel had invited Newton Ahmed Barry, a well-known critic of the country's military junta, on the programme last week. Already at the end of April, the channel was shut down for two weeks after reporting on a report from the human rights organisation Human Rights Watch, which accused the military of a massacre of civilians in February.
Several foreign news media, including the British The Guardian, French Le Monde and German Deutsche Welle, have previously been subject to similar blockages.
The West African nation has been ruled by a military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré since 2022.
