Burkina Faso: Aid Workers Detained Amid Humanitarian Crisis

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Shelters at the Wendou 2 displaced persons camp in Dori, Burkina Faso, May 29, 2024. © 2024 FANNY NOARO-KABRE/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The military junta in Burkina Faso is wrongfully detaining eight aid workers who had been helping to address the humanitarian emergency in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately drop the baseless charges against them and release them.In late July 2025, the Burkinabè intelligence services in Ouagadougou, the capital, detained the French national Jean-Christophe Pégon, director…

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