Ten years ago, on the 13th of December 1998, the bullet-ridden bodies of journalist Norbert Zongo and three friends were found in a burned-out car on the road to Sapouy, about 100km from the capital.

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. A day after the 14th anniversary of journalist Norbert Zongo's murder in Burkina Faso and two days ...

Reporters Without Borders calls on the UN to take up the case and to demand a trial RSF today deplored the failure to solve the murder of Norbert Zongo, publisher of the weekly paper “L’Indépendant”, ...

(RSF/IFEX) – Until recently, the investigation into the 13 December 1998 murder of journalist Norbert Zongo was at a standstill. Now, however, new testimony could see Examining Judge Wenceslas Ilboudo ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – A lawyer says that three former presidential guard members have been indicted and jailed for the killing of an investigative journalist nearly 20 years ago. Journalist ...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged three soldiers over the murder in 1998 of journalist Norbert Zongo whose killing became a symbol of repression during veteran President ...

African investigative journalists can apply. The Norbert Zongo National Press Center (CNP-NZ) and the Norbert Zongo Unit for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) are calling for ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. A day after the 14th anniversary of journalist Norbert Zongo's murder in Burkina Faso and two days ...