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Thousands demonstrate over journalist’s death

About 3,000 people marched through the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, at the weekend in protest over the death of Norbert Zongo, the editor of the local weekly, ‘L’independent,’ and three of his colleagues, news reports said today. Political opponents of President Blaise Campaore and members of human rights organisations in Bobo Dioulasso, the country’s second city, also joined Saturday’s rally. AFP reported that police stayed at a discrete distance while a helicopter hovered over the march. Zongo, 49, was found dead in a burnt-out car in December on a deserted road 100 km south of Ouagadougou. The opposition has called his death foul play.

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