On the phone, the voice is hesitant, then quickly blurts out:
“The situation is clearly improving.
Everything is better in Burkina Faso.”
A few minutes later, this Burkinabé activist apologized on another channel.
“Sorry, but now speaking is dangerous.”
Such is life in Burkina Faso, which seems to be sinking into increasingly brutal authoritarianism since the putsch of young captain Ibrahim Traoré, in September 2022. Those who forget the rule of silence or refuse to comply risk being arrested, in a more or less legal manner.
Guy Hervé Kam is the last great voice to have been a victim of the regime.
The lawyer and politician, a well-known figure in the fight for democracy, disappeared on January 25 at Ouagadougou airport.
According to a press release from his movement, he was
“kidnapped by men in civilian clothes and taken into an unmarked vehicle towards an unknown destination”
.
The operating procedure, most often with hooded men, is well established.
Shortly before, Daouda Diallo…
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