Burkina Faso Shut Down Facebook Over Security Concerns

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The authorities in Burkina Faso say they disrupted access to Facebook due to security fears.
Government spokesperson Alkassoum Maiga says the authorities did not have to explain themselves on the shutdown first reported on 10 January and which appears to have continued.
The government announced on 11 January that eight soldiers were arrested over a plan to destabilise the institutions of the republic, a development that local media said was a coup plot.