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MYSTERIOUS: Sahel region increasingly difficult work area for journalists report | Mind Blowing Facts

Burkina Faso's new junta leader Capitain Ibrahim Traore, pictured here in October 2022. Rules set by authoritarian regimes in the Sahel region affect the way journalists are working there. AFP - ISSOUF SANOGO

Paris-based media watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) says in its latest report that journalists are facing growing difficulties to freely cover events in the Sahel region, especially after military coups in countries like Mali and Burkina Faso.

RSF warns that the Sahel region, which stretches across the continent from west to east, is at risk of becoming "the biggest non-information zone in Africa."

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