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Les « safaris humains » attirant de riches « chasseurs » étrangers qui venaient tirer sur des civils dans Sarajevo assiégée étaient connus dès la fin de l'année 1993. Alors que l'enquête ouverte par la justice italienne relance le dossier, les explications d'un ancien agent des renseignements militaires bosniens.

- Articles / Une - Diaporama, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, Siège sarajevo, Défense, police et justice

Au moins 13 personnes ont été tuées dans cet immense incendie, mais sa cause reste encore inconnue.

Le géant de la recherche en ligne avance à toute vitesse sur les puces IA et sur son robot conversationnel Gemini.

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Thursday 27 November

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Thursday 27 November

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Thursday 27 November

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Thursday 27 November

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Az eurót reggel hét órakor 381,76 forinton jegyezték az előző este hat órai 382,02 forint után. Csütörtök reggeli jegyzésén a forint 1,6 százalékkal áll erősebben a novemberi kezdésnél az euróval szemben. (mti)

Asante Kotoko coach Abdul Karim Zito believes his side did enough to avoid defeat in Wednesday rsquo;s 2-1 loss to Basake Holy Stars, a result that halted the Porcupine Warriors rsquo; impressive unbeaten start to the 2025/26 Ghana Premier League season.

Fragmented markets, regulatory hurdles and slow uptake threaten Europe's ambitions to lead in life sciences by 2030

The military takeover comes as the West African nation was awaiting the results of Sunday's election.

In today’s edition: Magnus Brunner defends Europe’s hard-edged migration shift as he rewrites the asylum rulebook, MEPs brace for a pre-Christmas immunity vote tied to Qatargate, and Big Oil drags the EU to court over its new carbon-storage mandate

A junior college basketball player has died following an injury sustained during a game in Texas on Saturday. Ethan Dietz, 20, attended Connors State College in Warner, Oklahoma, and suffered a head injury while playing for the Cowboys against Grayson College in Denison.

Star Assurance Group has stepped in to fund the medical screening of Ghana rsquo;s professional boxers, a move driven by recent tragic losses in the sport. Retail Sales Lead Roland Ofei Ansah said in an interview that the company undertook the initiative as part of its corporate social responsibility, noting that many boxers and promoters .

La république séparatiste de Transnistrie, en Moldavie, renouvelle dimanche son Soviet suprême. Un scrutin sans suspens pour une institution essentielle du régime de Tiraspol parrainé par Moscou.

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Lengyelország három A26 Blekinge típusú tengeralattjárót vásáról Svédországtól a haditengerészet számára - jelentette be szerdai sajtóértekezletén Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz lengyel kormányfőhelyettes, nemzetvédelmi miniszter.

Az ukrán egészségügyi minisztérium 143 generátort kapott, amelyek beszerzését az Európai Unió és Németország közösen finanszírozta - hozta nyilvánosságra a kijevi német nagykövetség szerdán az X-en.

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By Inés M. Pousadela
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov 27 2025 (IPS)

Three years ago, Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Burkina Faso with two promises that have proved hollow: to address the country’s deepening security crisis and restore civilian rule. Now he has postponed elections until 2029, dissolved the independent electoral commission and pulled the country out of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Burkina Faso has become a military dictatorship.

The journey began in January 2022, when protests over the civilian government’s failure to address jihadist violence opened the door for Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to seize power. Transitional authorities promised a return to democracy within two years, agreeing to a timeline with ECOWAS. But eight months later, Traoré led a second coup, accusing Damiba of failing to defeat insurgents.

When Traoré’s promised deadline of June 2024 approached, the military government convened a national dialogue that most political parties boycotted. The resulting charter extended Traoré’s presidency until 2029 and granted him permission to stand in the next election, transforming what was meant to be a transitional arrangement into consolidated personal power. The dismissal of Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and the dissolution of his government in December 2024 removed the pretence of civilian participation in governance.

As the military has entrenched its rule, civic freedoms have evaporated. The CIVICUS Monitor downgraded Burkina Faso’s civic space rating to ‘repressed’ in December 2024, reflecting the systematic silencing of dissent through arbitrary detention and a particularly sinister tactic: forced military conscription of critics. Four journalists abducted in June and July 2024 disappeared into the military, with authorities announcing they had been enlisted. In March 2025, three prominent journalists who spoke out against press freedom restrictions were forcibly disappeared for 10 days before reappearing in military uniforms, their professional independence erased at gunpoint.

Civil society activists have suffered similar fates. Five members of the Sens political movement were abducted after publishing a press release denouncing the killing of civilians. The organisation’s coordinator, human rights lawyer Guy Hervé Kam, has been repeatedly detained for criticising military authorities. In August 2024, seven judges and prosecutors investigating junta supporters were conscripted; six reported to a military base and have not been heard from since. This weaponisation of conscription transforms civic engagement into grounds for forced military service, effectively criminalising dissent while claiming to mobilise national defence.

Meanwhile the security situation that supposedly justified these coups has dramatically worsened. Deaths from militant Islamist violence have tripled under Traoré’s watch, with eight of the 10 deadliest attacks against the military occurring under his rule. Military forces now operate freely in as little as 30 per cent of the country. The military has committed mass atrocities: in the first half of 2024, military forces and allied militias killed at least 1,000 civilians. In one incident in February 2024, soldiers summarily executed at least 223 civilians, including 56 children, in apparent retaliation for an Islamist attack.

Conflict has displaced millions, with independent estimates placing the numbers of internally displaced people at between three and five million, far exceeding the government’s last official count of just over two million in March 2023. Some are fleeing across the border. Around 51,000 refugees arrived in Mali’s Koro Cercle district between April and September 2025, overwhelming host communities already struggling with fragile public services. Multiple concurrent epidemics, including hepatitis E, measles, polio and yellow fever, compound the humanitarian crisis in Burkina Faso.

To avoid accountability for these failures, the junta is withdrawing from international oversight. In January, following their joint exit from ECOWAS, which they characterised as being under foreign influence and failing to support their fight against terrorism, military-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formed the Alliance of Sahel States. In September, the three juntas announced withdrawal from the ICC, mischaracterising the body that holds human rights abusers to account as a tool of neocolonial repression. These moves leave victims of extrajudicial killings, torture and war crimes with no realistic prospect of accountability.

The regime’s online propaganda machine has proved remarkably effective in justifying its intensifying repression. Traoré has cultivated an image as a young pan-African hero fighting western imperialism. To some young people across Africa and the diaspora, he represents the charismatic leadership needed to break with discredited politics and colonial relationships. This reputation is built on extensive disinformation that overstates progress, downplays human rights violations and portrays withdrawal from international institutions as bold resistance rather than an evasion of accountability.

The junta’s anti-imperialist rhetoric obscures a simple reality: it has replaced one troubling relationship with another. Having expelled French forces, Burkina Faso has turned to Russia for military support. Russian mercenaries now operate extensively alongside national forces, bringing no pressure to respect human rights while offering Vladimir Putin a shield from accountability for his war in Ukraine. The junta has recently granted a company linked to the Russian state a licence to mine gold.

Yet the democratic ideal survives. Civil society leaders continue to speak out, journalists continue to report and opposition figures continue to organise, despite the enormous personal risks. Their courage demands more than statements of concern.

In the face of the Trump administration’s sudden termination of USAID programmes, other international donors must step up and establish emergency funding mechanisms to support civil society organisations and independent media operating under severe restrictions in Burkina Faso or in exile. Regional institutions must impose targeted sanctions on officials responsible for human rights violations and maintain pressure for democratic restoration. Without sustained international solidarity with Burkina Faso’s democratic forces, the country risks becoming another cautionary tale of how military rule, once consolidated, proves extraordinarily difficult to reverse.

Inés M. Pousadela is CIVICUS Head of Research and Analysis, co-director and writer for CIVICUS Lens and co-author of the State of Civil Society Report. She is also a Professor of Comparative Politics at Universidad ORT Uruguay.

For interviews or more information, please contact research@civicus.org

 

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En Guinée-Bissau, le président Embalo a confirmé mercredi avoir été victime d’un coup d’État, alors que des militaires ont annoncé avoir pris le contrôle du pays pour "restaurer de l'ordre". Un événement qui intervient avant la publication des résultats des élections et comporte de nombreuses zones d’ombres, alerte le spécialiste de la Guinée-Bissau Vincent Foucher.