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The government’s spokesperson who chairs the editorial committee, regularly visits SRT premises to “ensure that the broadcast information is in keeping with the tastes and colours of the Head of State”.

Almost two years after being sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for “embezzlement of public funds” – and having already been arbitrarily detained for eight years – Amadou Vamoulké has just been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for a similar offence.

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.