Burkina Faso: In Burkina Faso, 3 Journalists Missing After Media Association Condemns Kidnaps

Burkina: 3 journalists arrested, HRW denounces media repression

Guezouma Sanogo and Boukari Ouoba , the president and vice-president of the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso, and Luc Pagbelguem of the local television channel BF1, were arrested on Monday and their whereabouts are unknown.

Burkina Faso: In Burkina Faso, 3 Journalists Missing After Media Association Condemns Kidnaps

Dakar -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to urgently disclose the whereabouts of journalists Guézouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem, who were arrested on Monday, and release them unconditionally.

In Burkina Faso, 3 journalists missing after media association condemns kidnaps - Committee to Protect Journalists

Dakar, March 26, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to urgently disclose the whereabouts of journalists Guézouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem, who were arrested on Monday, and release them unconditionally. Intelligence officers took the Association of Burkinabe Journalists (ABJ) president Sanogo and vice-president Ouoba to an unknown location after Sanogo criticized the intimidation and “k…

In Burkina Faso, private television BF1, which broadcast a report on the extraordinary congress of the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso (AJB), received a fine of 500,000 CFAF. The journalist, the author of the report, is suspended from any audiovisual activity for two weeks. This is the decision of the Conseil supérieur de la communication (CSC).

Trio of African nations most cruel to media - CAJ News Africa

by TINTSWALO BALOYIJOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – JOURNALISTS are under siege in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In Burkina Faso, the whereabouts of three journalists are unknown. Two journalists are missing and in Zimbabwe, a prominent journalist remains behind bars after interviewing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fiercest critic. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on authorities in Burkina Faso to disclose the whereabout…

Burkina Faso urged to release three detained journalists

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Burkina Faso’s military rulers to release three journalists arrested this week and held in an undisclosed location. The arrests come amid an escalating crackdown on critics of the junta, which seized power in 2022. On Tuesday, authorities dissolved the Burkina Journalists’ Association (AJB), a day after police detained its president, Guezouma Sanogo, and his deputy, Boukari Ouoba. A third journalist, Luc Pa…