Burkina Faso’s Largest Student Union Suspended for Criticizing Junta

Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. © 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images The Burkina Faso junta’s suspension of the country’s largest student union is the latest in a series of government crackdowns on freedoms of association and expression. On May 26, the minister of territorial administration signed a decree suspending the activities of the General Union for Burkina Students