Burkina Faso: Release of Several Journalists Arrested and Detained for Several Months

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In Burkina Faso, five days after the release of two journalists of the TV channel BF1 arbitrarily arrested, two other confreres were able to return home. Two members of the AJB (Association des Journalistes du Burkina Faso) returned to freedom on Monday, 21 July, after four months of forced recruitment.

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Reporters Without Borders announced that Burkina Faso journalists, who had been forced to serve as part of the general mobilization in the war against jihadist groups, had been released days after the release of two of their colleagues. The president of the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso, Gizuma Sanogo, and the journalist of Radio Vivemina FM, Villa Roland Zongo, arrived on the evening of Monday, 21 July, in the capital, Ouagadougou,…

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Guézouma Sanogo and Phil Roland ZongoThey denounced the transformation of the public media into propaganda tools at a congress of the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso.