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In an astonishing statement, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the head of Burkina Faso’s government, announced he’d forcibly conscripted a journalist at a time when four media professionals are currently missing.

An editor and two columnists have been kidnapped in a ten-day span in Burkina Faso.

According to information gathered by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an armed commando in civilian clothes claiming to be members of the Burkinabe secret service apprehended Atiana Serge Oulon.

Since the forced closure of Hong Kong’s largest Chinese-language independent newspaper Apple Daily three years ago, seven of its staff members, including the founder Jimmy Lai, are still detained and awaiting verdicts on spurious national security charges

The arbitrary detention of Soumana Idrissa Maïga, the publisher of the L’Enquêteur daily newspaper, poses a new threat to press freedom in Niger, says RSF, calling for the withdrawal of the charges against him.

Appollinaire Mewenemesse is pending trial after more than 72 hours in police custody.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Équateur province, in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to pursue the dialogue initiated with the media after a series of press freedom violations and attacks on journalists...

The reelection of President Ilham Aliyev, who silences all dissent, is assured without much suspense on 7 February 2024. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the wave of arrests of journalists that started on 20 November.