Central African Republic: Radio Lengo Songo's pro-Russian editorial shift

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Sunset over Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, in December 2020 © Alexis Huguet, AFP

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Simon Decreuze Follow

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Earlier this year, Radio Lengo Songo, one of Bangui's main stations, radically changed its editorial line, to the point of being called by some “ 

the radio of the Russians

 ”.

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Maxime Audinet

, researcher at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (Irsem), specialist in Russian informational influence operations, who publishes on the INA's media review website, an 

article

 on this Central African radio station. 

In the second part of the program,

Sinatou Saka

comes to present the second edition of Mooc

Citizen Connections

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CFI

, the French media development agency, aimed at African youth.

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Boukari Ouédraogo

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