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Former Burkina Faso police chief commits suicide

Senegal’s leading online news medium Seneweb has reported that Mr. Dieudonné Ouattara, former Director General of the Burkina Faso national police, committed suicide on Tuesday, 26th July 2022. According to Seneweb, the deceased used his service weapon to commit suicide Tuesday morning at his home in Nonghin in the Rimkieta […]

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The Gambia: Journalist arrested, charged with obstructing a police officer

The Editor-in-chief of Gainako Online Newspaper, Yusuf Taylor, was arrested and charged with “obstructing a police officer” and detained for four hours at the Senegambia Police Station on Tuesday, 5 July, 2022. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Gambia Press Union (GPU) in condemning this act […]