In Ivory Coast, the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA) recently issued a warning to "France 24" after the broadcast of a report on the channel on March 11.

In the article titled "In Ivory Coast, the taboo of irregular immigration," the journalist states that the benefits of the country's economic growth only benefit a very small part of the Ivorian population and that the Eburnean nation is divided between a very rich class and a very poor class, in the absence of a middle class.

She did not "consider it necessary, as required by the ethics of her profession..."

For the HACA, these assertions are "unbalanced and biased."

"How can we objectively claim that there is no middle class?" the regulatory body protested, also rejecting the journalist's claims that 80% of the Ivorian economy is informal.

The HACA was also surprised that the author of the report, who "is said to have stayed in Ivory Coast, did not consider it necessary, as required by the ethics of her profession, to offer the point of view of the Ivorian public authorities and was content to limit herself to opinions which, moreover, suggest that the Ivorian authorities are inactive and indifferent to the phenomenon of illegal immigration."

Ultimately, the regulatory body calls on French television to "be more vigilant in its coverage of current events in Ivory Coast."