Two reporters of a Ouagadougou weekly arrested by Burkinabe gendarmes while investigating the shooting to death of a 12-year-old schoolboy were released on Tuesday.
Newton Ahmed Barry and Germain Nama, reporters for ‘L’Independent’, were investigating the death of Flavien Nebie whose corpse was found in Bousse, a locality 50 km north of Ouagadougou. He died in a student demonstration against what student unions said were the ‘selective reforms’ at the University of Ouagadougou.
“They did not say why they had kept us, neither the reason for our release,” Barry told IRIN on Wednesday.
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