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The location of journalists Boukari Ouoba (from left), Luc Pagbelguem, and Guézouma Sanogo is unknown since their arrest on Match 24.

In Burkina Faso, 3 journalists missing after media association condemns kidnaps

March 27, 2025 4:04 PM EDT

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…