How Africa's Sahel Region Is Becoming a Media Desert: WestAfrica
In the past decade, five journalists have been killed and six have gone missing in the Sahel, a vast, semiarid region of western and north-central Africa that stretches along the Sahara desert's southern rim from Senegal to Eritrea.
In some Sahel countries, journalists are persecuted by armed Islamist factions and ruling military juntas alike -- the former abducting or killing reporters, the latter restricting press freedoms or conducting arbitrary arrests. Contacted by VOA, Dubois' wife, Deborah, said her husband, who was freed at the end of March, is not currently giving interviews.
Things aren't much better in neighboring Burkina Faso, she added, noting that Liberation and Le Mondefrom the country in recent days after publishing content perceived by leaders of its military junta as critical of the government.
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