The group received this Wednesday the notification of this decision by the High authority of the communication of Mali which it "contests with force", intending to appeal, indicated Wednesday evening to AFP its director of communication Thomas Legrand.
"We will continue to cover news in Mali which is of interest to all of Africa and the rest of the world. All technical solutions will be implemented to make our media accessible to Malians who wish to continue to receive free information, expert and open to the world", continues France Médias Monde, without giving more details.
The decision to sanction RFI and France 24 comes as the Malian junta on Tuesday evening accused the French army of "espionage" and "subversion" after the French general staff broadcast videos shot by a nearby drone. from a base in central Mali recently returned by France.
On March 17, she ordered the suspension of the broadcast of RFI and France 24, after the publication by these French media of information according to which the Malian army was involved in abuses against civilians, a decision then described as "serious". by Emanuel Macron.
The French president had considered that it was "the sign of a race forward towards the worst" for the Sahelian country.
He had appealed "to ECOWAS, the regional organization, and to the African Union to take the appropriate decisions (...), so that, both the violence and (...) the closure, the denial of information and the right of journalists to freely inform can end".
The Malian government had announced that it was initiating "a procedure (...) to suspend until further notice the broadcasting" of the two French public media.
Against the backdrop of the diplomatic crisis with Bamako, Paris announced in February the withdrawal of its soldiers deployed in Mali, an operation to be completed this summer.
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