Could France be planning to shut down Afrique Media?

The journalist, Armand Roger Biloa Mballe noted that a meeting relating to the closure of the television station based in Cameroon was held November 20, 2014 in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Paris.

The journalist at the Cameroon weekly, the Sphinx hebdo, Armand Roger Biloa Mballe revealed this on Thursday, November 20, 2014 that a secret meeting relating to the closure of the television channel Afrique media emitting from Douala was held at the Quai d'Orsay, the Headquarters of the french Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Anti neo journalist stated that this was 'a top-secret meeting in which the president of the television channel canal SAT in the presence of an Envoy of Ivorian president Alassane Dramane Ouattara took part'.

Citing "information from good source, consistent, reliable and cut to the level of our contacts in the French capital", our colleague added that the purpose of this meeting was to engage the French highest authorities to bring Cameroonian president Paul Biya to close Afrique Media TV, presented according to him by the authorities as a body which affects the image of France in Africa and around the world.

According to the Cameroonian, France accused the television head Justin Blaise Tagouh of "awakening people to prepare a rejection policy of France in Africa, especially francophone African consciousness.

The French authorities accuse Afrique Media of treating and analyzing strategic and sensitive topics including the output of the Franc, the mechanisms of monetary zone of France against Africa through the Operations account that handles the currencies of African State members".

According to the journalist, the French authorities hate the unfavourably criticisms on the antennas of Afrique Media against the presence of military bases in Africa, the accusations of plundering of raw materials, for example the Niger uranium.

Armand Roger Biloa Mballe called Africans and Afrique Media contributors to prepare for a battle "in order to make France understand, that any attack on this TV would cost her dearly on the African continent and beyond".