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Ouagadougou

Published on
December 24, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

University campuses in the capital of Burkina Faso and at Bobo Diolasso, the country's second biggest city, have been closed indefinitely following a wave of protests by students and human rights organisations to mark the second anniversary of the death of a journalist allegedly assassinated by members of the presidential guard.

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