Niger has suspended the BBC for three months over the broadcaster’s coverage of a terrorist attack earlier this week.
Communications Minister, Raliou Sidi Mohamed made this known in letters sent to radio stations that rebroadcast BBC content.
Mohamed in the letter accused BBC of broadcasting false information aimed at destabilising social calm and undermining the troops’ morale,”.
Meanwhile, the BBC has not publicly commented on the suspension.
BBC programmes, including those in Hausa, the most-spoken language in Niger, are broadcast in the West African country through local radio partners to reach a large audience across the region.
The British broadcaster had reported on Wednesday that gunmen had killed more than 90 Nigerien soldiers and more than 40 civilians in two villages near the border with Burkina Faso which Niger described as false report.
