
‘Fake News’:Burundi Bans BBC, Withdraws Radio Licence
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burundi has banned the BBC from the country and taken its radio off the airwaves, after what the government said was the broadcaster’s “false’’ reporting on secret torture centres. “The licence to operate the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio Station is withdrawn,’’ Nestor Bankumukunzi, the head of the National Communication Council, said…