三个非洲国家在俄罗斯支持下启动了塔富克电视台（Tafouk TV），这是俄罗斯合作的广播电视台，他们先前驱逐了西方记者并打压地方媒体。现在军阀掌握了麻话筒。
Three African countries have started Tafouk TV, a Russia-partnered broadcast channel, after throwing out Western journalists and cracking down on local media. The generals now have the mic.
三个非洲军政政府上个月与俄罗斯的支持一起启动了一个联合电视台，这是该地区更大规模打压记者的一部分，同时该地区的安全危机正在恶化，位于西非的撒哈拉地区。
Three African military governments launched a joint television channel with support from Russia last month, as part of a larger crackdown on journalists amid a worsening security crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa.
塔富克电视台的标语是“为一个主权的非洲而服务”，于9月份开始播出，服务于马里、布基纳法索和尼日尔——近年来这些国家已逐渐疏远了像法国这样的前盟友。去年，这三个国家退出了一个称为ECOWAS的西非联盟，并组成自己的撒哈拉国联盟。
Tafouk TV, a channel with the tagline, “Television for a sovereign Africa,” started broadcasting in September and serves Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger — three countries that have in recent years distanced themselves from former allies like France. Last year, all three nations left a West African alliance known as ECOWAS and formed their own Alliance of Sahelian States.
从马里首都班加科发射的新电台以Tamacheq语“太阳”命名，展示了对军政集团有利的内容。最近节目之一专门致力于中学生的“公民和爱国教育”。另一个节目指责法国在尼日尔的一个铀矿中“掠夺资源”。音乐视频中有士兵在卡车后面和军用直升机周围跳舞，唱着赞扬他们的军事领导人的歌曲。
Broadcasting from Bamako, Mali’s capital, the new channel is named after the Tamasheq word for “sun” and showcases content favorable to the juntas. One recent program was dedicated to the “civic and patriotic education” of middle-school children. Another accused the French of “plundering resources” at a Nigerien uranium mine. Music videos feature soldiers dancing in the back of pickup trucks and around military helicopters, singing flattering songs about their military leaders.
这三个国家正在与与基地组织和伊斯兰国有关的武装团体作斗争，但恶化的安全形势似乎不是节目的优先内容。
The worsening security situation in the three countries, which are battling armed groups affiliated with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, does not appear to be a programming priority.
马里外交部长阿布杜拉耶·迪奥普在Facebook上发文称，该电台在“敌对的地缘政治背景下运营，那里充满了叙事上的混合战争”，并希望它能促进主权并“驱散恐怖主义的黑暗”。
Mali’s foreign minister, Abdoulaye Diop, said in a Facebook post that the channel was operating in a “hostile geopolitical context, marked by a hybrid war of narratives,” and that he hoped it would promote sovereignty and “dispel the darkness of terrorism.”