{"id":649629,"date":"2026-06-20T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:20:22","slug":"burkina-faso-fines-french-media-group-canal-50-million-cfa-francs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649629\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso fines French media group Canal+ 50 million CFA francs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burkina Faso&#8217;s media regulator has imposed a fine of 50 million CFA francs (or \u20ac76,200) on French multimedia group Canal+, the Burkina Faso Press Agency reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Higher Council for Communication (CSC) says the company failed to provide free access to national television channels for its subscribers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A 2024 convention requires Canal+ to continue broadcasting national public channels, even if subscriptions expire. <\/p>\n<p>The Burkinabe media regulator argues that the French group \u201cfailed to comply with its contractual obligations\u201d after several warnings. <\/p>\n<p>Canal+ has been granted a new 30-day extension to fully broadcast public channels and will face \u201cmore severe penalties\u201d if it fails to comply, the CSC said. <\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso has suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2023\/09\/28\/burkina-faso-suspends-french-media-jeune-afrique-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">almost all Western media outlets<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2022\/12\/05\/burkina-faso-bans-french-radio-for-airing-terrorist-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">French news organisations RFI and France 24<\/a>, since a military junta took power in a 2022 coup. <\/p>\n<p>In May, the country banned French-language channel TV5 Monde from broadcasting after accusing it of &#8220;disinformation&#8221; and &#8220;promotion of terrorism&#8221; over its coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2026\/04\/28\/mali-reeling-after-coordinated-attacks-expose-security-cracks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">recent jihadist violence in neighbouring Mali<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso&#8217;s media regulator has imposed a fine of 50 million CFA francs (or \u20ac76,200) on French multimedia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}