# Journalists and government critics were reported missing amid the crackdown

Date: 2024

Human Rights Watch documented disappearances of journalists and critics, including Serge Oulon, Kalifara Séré and Adama Bayala, against a broader pattern of repression and disputed mobilization.

## Drivers

- Traoré junta and AES: https://factrail.ai/drivers/traore-junta-aes

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/burkina-faso
- https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/10/burkina-faso-journalist-junta-critics-feared-disappeared

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/burkina-disappeared-journalists-critics-2024