The Fahazavàna radio sanctioned by the ministry for communication

For several weeks, partisans of the High Authority of Transition have been calling upon silencing the Fahazavàna radio for good. Andry Rajoelina’s collaborators even sharply criticized the minister for communication, Nathalie Rabe, for failing to punish this radio channel belonging to the FJKM reformed church. 

Now it is a done deal. The political program Ampenjika and the Fahazavàna radio’s news bulletin are, henceforth, suspended for one month. Ampenjika has been granting live interventions to listeners. So the authorities used a listener’s “incitation to violence” against the station to justify the sanction. The listener would have called upon political mobilities’ demonstrators opposed to Rajoelina to carry and throw stones at the police forces in front of the National assembly’s palace. 

The minister for communication, Nathalie Rabe, intervened live on television and on national radio waves, in the evening of December 22nd, to make the sanctioning of the Fahazavàna radio public, in the name of the Superior Audiovisual Council.  

Since the havoc and the closing of pro-Ravalomanana media groups as MBS and Mada, the Fahazavàna radio was the single last remaining radio station to echo demonstrations in favour of the ousted president.