Cote d'Ivoire: Broadcasting Regulator Suspends Local Transmission of International News Stations

Reporters Without Borders is astonished that the National Broadcasting Council (CNCA) has suspended local retransmission of all international radio and TV news stations amid continuing turmoil over the result of last weekend's presidential election.

In a communiqué signed by its president, Franck Anderson Kouassi, and read on national radio and television last night by its secretary-general, Félix Nanihio, the CNCA announced "the immediate suspension of the signals of all international radio and TV news stations carried by the Canal+ Horizon satellite service" in order to "preserve social peace, which has been seriously shaken."

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