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The Burundi Government has banned both the Voice of America (VOA) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), for six months.
Government said the two foreign media breached professional ethics and the laws governing the press in the country.
Burundi is going ahead with the controversial referendum aimed at extending presidential term limits.
The May 17 vote if successful will allow President Nkurunziza to continue in power.
The referendum would extend the presidential term to seven years from five, allowing Nkurunziza to run again in 2020.
Nkurunziza came to power in 2005 after a peace deal ended a decade of civil war between the Tutsi-dominated army and Hutu rebels, in which 300,000 people were killed.
He ran for a third term in 2015, which opponents said violated the peace deal, sparking clashes that resulted in hundreds of deaths.
The United States, human rights groups and the Catholic Church have denounced violence ahead of the vote.
Democratic Republic of Congo is another country with frosty relations with Radio France International (RFI) radio and U.N.-backed Radio Okapi’s signa
