Burkina Faso's military government has requisitioned journalists into the army and in August 2026 sent 44 to mandatory military training
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In October 2024 the director general of human rights at Burkina Faso's justice ministry acknowledged, at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, that journalists Serge Oulon, Adama Bayala and Kalifara Sere had been requisitioned by force by the army under a decree. In March 2025 the president and vice-president of the Association of Journalists of Burkina, Guezouma Sanogo and Boukari Ouoba, were abducted in Ouagadougou by men reported to have posed as intelligence officers. In August 2026, 44 journalists from public and private media took part in a compulsory 'patriotic immersion' course at the Pabre police academy that ended on 14 August, ordered by the Ministry of Security; Reporters Without Borders called it a 'very alarming new signal'. Connection Ivoirienne reports that at least six media professionals have been forcibly conscripted since 2024.
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