Arrested journalists reappear in army gear, fueling concerns about the junta’s crackdown on press freedom in Burkina Faso.

A video circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military ...

By Emmanuel Oloniruha The Congress of African Journalists (CAJ) has called for the immediate release of three journalists detained in Burkina Faso and forcibly conscripted into the armed forces.

Dakar, April 4, 2025 mdash;The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to release recently ...

Coach Vela Khumalo's team achieved the feat after they finished as runners-up to Group B winners Burkina Faso at the CAF U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) currently underway in Morocco."We are ...

Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025 for reporting on the government crackdown on the ...

One video showed men armed with assault rifles and blood-stained knives, and dressed in T-shirts appearing to mark them out as members of local self-defence groups. Burkinabe authorities have denied ...

The Congress of African Journalists (CAJ) has issued a strong call for the immediate release of three journalists in Burkina Faso who were detained and allegedly forced into military service by the ...

FILE - Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traore participates in a ceremony in Ouagadougou, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Kilaye Bationo, File) Advertisement ...

Militias allied with Burkina Faso's military junta have been linked ... The human rights watchdog said armed men wearing identifiable uniforms of local militias allied with the junta can be ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Burkina Faso authorities on Friday to immediately release three journalists detained last month. The call came after videos surfaced on social ...

Pro-government militias in Burkina Faso are implicated in video footage circulating on social networks showing the massacre of dozens of civilians in and around the western city of Solenzo on March 10 ...