布基纳法索、马里和尼日尔正在通过新电视频道“Tafouk TV”加强联合媒体攻势，旨在挑战西方媒体的报道，并推广这三个由军方领导的萨赫勒国家对事件的自身解读。
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are stepping up their joint media push with Tafouk TV, a new television channel aimed at challenging Western coverage and promoting the three military-led Sahel states’ own account of events.
该频道从巴马科进行广播，并通过Canal+平台播出。它是萨赫勒国家联盟（AES）正在开发的更广泛媒体网络的一部分，随着成员国加深与俄罗斯的联系并疏远法国及其他西方伙伴，该网络的作用日益凸显。
Broadcasting from Bamako and available through Canal+, the channel is part of a wider media network being developed by the Alliance of Sahel States – or AES – as its members deepen ties with Russia and distance themselves from France and other Western partners.
马里外交部长阿卜杜拉耶·迪奥普本月表示：“我们必须进行反击……以确保这些平台能够传播我们自己的叙事。”
“We had to strike back... to ensure that these platforms could spread our own narrative,” Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said this month.
“Tafouk”在萨赫勒地区许多图阿雷格社区使用的塔马舍克语中意为“太阳”。该频道于9月16日正式开播。
Tafouk TV, whose name means “Sun” in Tamasheq, the language spoken by many Tuareg communities across the Sahel, began official programming on 16 September.
其节目呈现大量借鉴了区域意象。开场主题曲灵感来源于传统的杜佐猎人音乐，而其“通讯干预旅”节目的标志则是一个融合了摄像机、麦克风和钢笔的盾牌图案。
Its presentation draws heavily on regional imagery. The opening theme is inspired by the music of traditional Dozo hunters, while the logo of its Communication Intervention Brigade programme features a shield incorporating a camera, microphone and pen.
Tafouk TV新闻总监、与马里军方关系密切的网络活动人士、主持人阿卜杜勒·尼昂表示：“当阴谋家试图破坏国家稳定时，战斗不仅发生在军营里，也发生在我们的屏幕上、报纸专栏和社交媒体上。”
“When plotters attempt to destabilise the state, the battle plays out not just in the barracks, but also on our screens, in newspaper columns and on social media,” said presenter Abdoul Niang, Tafouk TV’s news director and a cyberactivist close to Mali’s military authorities.
其中一档节目邀请了泛非主义网红富兰克林·尼亚姆西，他作为萨赫勒军政府的支持者，分析了法国媒体对8月份尼日尔一起未遂兵变的报道。
One programme featured pan-African influencer Franklin Nyamsi, a supporter of the Sahel juntas, analysing French media coverage of a thwarted mutiny in Niger in August.
布基纳法索因打压公民社会被列入人权观察名单。叙事之争：布基纳法索、马里和尼日尔已逐渐与西方政府，特别是前殖民宗主国法国决裂，同时加强了与俄罗斯的外交和安全联系。
Burkina Faso added to human rights watchlist over crackdown on civil society Battle over the narrative Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have progressively broken with Western governments, particularly former colonial power France, while strengthening diplomatic and security ties with Russia.
这三个国家的军事领导人将他们的政变行为部分归咎于民选政府未能有效遏制多年来持续存在的圣战主义暴力活动。尽管如此，武装组织在该地区的大部分地区仍然活跃，平民和安全部队仍在不断遭受伤害。这些军政府还因限制政治反对派和媒体自由而受到批评。
Military leaders in the three countries justified their takeovers partly by citing the failure of civilian governments to contain years of jihadist violence. Armed groups nevertheless remain active across large parts of the region, with civilians and security forces continuing to be killed. The juntas have also faced criticism over restrictions on political opposition and the media.
一些外国记者被驱逐出境；一些西方主流媒体在报道了军事失利或与官方关于战场胜利的说法相矛盾的报道后，也被暂停或禁止了播出。
Foreign correspondents have been expelled and several major Western broadcasters suspended or banned after reporting military losses or accounts that contradicted official claims of battlefield successes.
一个虚假信息网络如何破坏萨赫勒国家联盟的稳定？ Tafouk电视台每天播出三档新闻节目，主要关注萨赫勒国家联盟（AES）的三个成员国：布基纳法索、马里和尼日尔。这三个国家在退出西非国家经济共同体（ECOWAS）后，一直在努力建立共同的政治、安全和外交机制。
How a disinformation network is destabilising the Alliance of Sahel States Tafouk TV broadcasts three daily news bulletins focused on the three members of the Alliance of Sahel States, or AES. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger created the alliance before withdrawing from the Economic Community of West African States, Ecowas, and have since sought to build common political, security and diplomatic structures.
尼日尔的国家电视台表示，这一媒体的成立意味着萨赫勒地区的民众“不再只是那些被动接受虚假信息的受害者”。
Niger’s state television said the launch meant Sahel populations were “no longer passive consumers of false and manipulated stories coming from fake news factories”.
Tafouk电视台计划用法语、英语以及当地语言（如班巴拉语和豪萨语）制作关于事实核查、地缘政治以及前线动态的节目。
Tafouk TV plans programmes on fact-checking, geopolitics and frontline developments in French, English and regional languages including Bambara and Hausa.
俄罗斯公开支持这一媒体项目。俄罗斯驻马里大使伊戈尔·格罗米科在6月称赞了该电视台在打击“虚假信息和认知战”方面的作用。
Russia has openly supported the project. Moscow’s ambassador to Mali, Igor Gromyko, praised its planned role in fighting “disinformation and cognitive warfare” in June.
一个月后，Tafouk电视台在尼亚美与俄罗斯国家资助的RT电视台的母公司签署了合作协议，内容包括内容交流、技术支持以及共同报道俄罗斯和萨赫勒地区的事件。
布基纳法索、马里和尼日尔三国还宣布将共同退出国际刑事法院（ICC）。
A month later, Tafouk TV signed a cooperation agreement in Niamey with the parent company of Russian state-funded broadcaster RT, covering content exchanges, expertise and joint coverage of events in Russia and the Sahel.
随着Tafouk电视台的成立，萨赫勒国家联盟的媒体网络进一步完善了其信息传播体系。此前，马里曾利用法国国际广播电台（Radio France Internationale）的频率在瓦加杜古开设了Daande Liptako广播电台。
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger jointly announce withdrawal from the ICC Building an AES media network The television channel follows the launch in December of Daande Liptako radio, broadcasting from Ouagadougou on a frequency previously used by Radio France Internationale.
在所有三个属于非洲联盟（AU）的成员国中，无线电频率干扰（RFI）行为已被明令禁止。
RFI is now banned in all three AES states. The alliance is also planning a joint official news agency based in Niamey, further extending a media network designed to give the three governments greater control over how their policies and security campaigns are presented.
该联盟还计划在尼亚美成立一家联合官方新闻机构，以此进一步扩展其媒体网络，旨在让这三个国家的政府能够更好地控制自身政策及安全行动的传播方式。然而，这一举措也引发了人们对媒体多元化的更多呼声。
But the project has also prompted calls for greater media pluralism.
一位尼日尔前议员警告称，新的新闻机构“绝不能沦为宣传工具”；这位前议员还表示：“我们还需要真正开放、透明的辩论环境，让各种观点都能得到充分的表达。”
A former Nigerien MP warned that the new service “must not become a propaganda tool”. “We also need genuine, open debates where any and all opinions can be expressed,” the former lawmaker said.