Burkina Faso military dissolves 118 NGOs in sweeping crackdown

Burkina Faso’s military-led government has taken another stark step to consolidate its grip on power, dissolving 118 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society groups in an unprecedented blow to public freedoms. The announcement, issued Wednesday by the Ministry of Territorial Administration, follows a string of increasingly repressive measures under the regime of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who came to power in a 2022 coup. The banned organizations, all headquartered in Burkina Faso, i