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Life of Burkinabe investigative journalist in danger
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A voter entering a polling station in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 29 November 2015, Émilie Iob (VOA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
No stranger to being under attack Burkinabe journalist Yacouba Ladji Bama was shot at, on his way home after co-hosting a panel discussion on electoral corruption.
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 23 December 2020.
On his return from the town of Dori, in the Sahel region, where he co-hosted a panel discussion on electoral corruption during the electoral campaign on November 22, 2020, award-wining investigative journalist and editor of
“Courrier Confidentiel”, Yacouba Ladji Bama was targeted when the vehicle in which he was travelling came under a gun attack, according to the journalist’s testimony. ....

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