Three journalists at Benin's state broadcaster, Office de Radiodiffusion et Television du Benin (ORTB), have been banned from presenting on the television station's 8pm broadcast. Ozias Sounouvou, Prévert Noutèhou and Renaud Acakpo told MFWA's correspondent in Benin that there was an “order from above that their names should be removed from the list of news presenters for the 20 hours news broadcast”.