OUAGADOUGOU — The Higher Council of Communication (CSC) suspended the newspaper ‘L’Evènement’ on all its publication media for a period of one month, for breaches in its article entitled ‘400,000,000 FCFA from the embezzled VDPs/Captain BOENA left with his testimony,’ the AIB learned on Thursday.

According to Burkina Information Agency, June 19, 2024, the Burkinabè media regulator suspended the bimonthly newspaper for making malicious insinuations without clear demonstration of the links between the 400,000,000 FCFA, the late captain Boena, and the president of Faso, captain Ibrahim Traoré, and between the latter and the suspected captain.

Asked to explain the shortcomings noted on June 14, 2024, the director of the newspaper denied the said shortcomings, accusing the CSC of a poor reading of the article. As a reminder, the French media TV5 Monde Afrique was suspended on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, for six months for failings in the processing of information relating to the security situation in Burkina Faso.