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BBC Monitoring Nichola Mandil
The world through its media BBC News, Juba
Burkina South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked his foreign affairs minister who had been in office for less than a year.
Faso’s media regulator has imposed a two-week suspension on the programmes of James Pitia Morgan, who was appointed last August, was dismissed in a presidential decree read out on state television on Thursday night.
BBC Afrique and Voice of America (VOA) for airing a Human Rights Watch report accusing the Burkinabè army of abuses against civilians. Before becoming foreign affairs minister, Mr Morgan was South Sudan’s ambassador to Ethiopia.
Access to the websites and digital platforms of BBC, VOA, and Human Rights Watch is also suspended within Burkina Faso. He has now been replaced by his former deputy, Ramadan Abdallah Goch.
“Accordingly, the BBC and VOA, through their correspondents in Burkina Faso, were instructed by telephone to immediately stop rebroadcasting the offending programme on all their platforms," state-owned news agency Agence d’Information du Burkina (AIB) reported President Kiir appointed Mr Morgan as his envoy for the Great Lakes region.
on Thursday. Mr Kiir also dismissed Mayen Wol Dut, the long-serving undersecretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and appointed him as South Sudan’s new ambassador to China.
The Superior Council for Communication (CSC) further warned all local media outlets against disseminating the article, There were no reasons given for the latest reshuffle.
threatening sanctions against violators of the directive. Observers say it could be a political tactic for Mr Kiir ahead of elections, scheduled for December.
VOA said in an article published on Friday that it "stands by its reporting about Burkina Faso and Mr Goch is the first Muslim to head the foreign ministry.
intends to continue to fully and fairly cover activities in the country".
HRW published a report on Thursday accusing the
Burkina Faso military of executing at least 223 civilians on 25 February in the
north of the country.
In
December 2023, the West African nation suspended French daily Le Monde accusing it of biased
reporting.
It also suspended three other international media outlets at varying times last year, including French-language magazine Jeune Afrique, French TV channel channel La Chaîne Info (LCI) and French state-owned media organisation France24.
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