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Burkina Faso - Hope of justice for Norbert Zongo at last?

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders hails the historic ruling that the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights issued on 5 June in the case of Norbert Zongo, a Burkina Faso newspaper editor who was murdered together with three other people in 1998. The court ordered Burkina Faso's authorities to “resume the investigations with a view to finding, charging and trying the perpetrators of the murders of Norbert Zongo and his three companions.” It also ordered the Burkina Faso state to pay compensation (...)

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