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Burkina Faso rights defender abducted as concerns grow over alleged clampdown on dissent

ABUJA, Nigeria — A prominent human rights defender in Burkina Faso has been abducted by unknown individuals, rights groups have announced, in what activists say could be the latest attempt by the military government to target dissidents using a controversial law. Daouda Diallo, a 2022 recipient of the Martin Ennals international human rights award, was abducted on Friday in Burkina …

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Burkina Faso rights group alleges 28 dead in ethnic killings

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Volunteer militia groups supporting Burkina Faso’s army have killed dozens of civilians of the ethnic Fulani group, including children, in the troubled country’s west, a local rights group charged on Tuesday. Burkina Faso’s government said it has launched an investigation into the killings of at least 28 people. In a statement Monday, Armel Sama Burkina Faso’s …

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Burkina Faso award-winner vows to keep defending rights

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — For Daouda Diallo the threat of death is constant in conflict-riddled Burkina Faso. In this difficult situation, Diallo’s work to document abuses and protect people’s rights in Burkina Faso has been internationally recognized with the Martin Ennals award, bestowed each year by a consortium of 10 international rights groups. “Daouda Diallo has investigated and reported grave …

Hundreds go missing in Burkina Faso amid extremist violence

FADA N’GOURMA, Burkina Faso — The last time Polenli Combary spoke to her son on the phone she prayed for God to bless him. About 70% of families reporting people missing allege it is linked to the security forces, said Daouda Diallo, executive secretary for the Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities, a civil society group. Burkina Faso’s increasing …

‘Kill them all, don’t spare anyone’: A massacre in Burkina Faso

Attacks by armed groups on civilians are increasing in the West African country. “I knew I’d be killed… if I died on a Friday my paradise was guaranteed,” Diallo tells Al Jazeera, sitting in Dori, Burkina Faso, a town in the country’s Sahel region to which he fled. “So, I recited some Quranic verses while on top of the bus …