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- ↑ Burkina Faso - Page 122 Sylviane Janin - 2010 "... de la Révolution. Il a reparu dès février 1991, sous le nom de L'Observateur Paalga (paalga ... Sidwaya), quotidien d'information; il a commencé à paraître en 1984 sous le gouvernement de Thomas Sankara. Depuis, il est toujours resté journal d'Etat. L'Indépendant est un journal «politiquement incorrect» car engagé. La disparition de son directeur, Norbert Zongo, assassiné le 13 décembre 1998, en atteste."
- ↑ Révoltes et oppositions dans un régime semi-autoritaire Page 184 Mathieu Hilgers, Jacinthe Mazzocchetti - 2010 "Ce choix prend donc en compte les grandes tendances qui caractérisent à l'époque l'univers médiatique burkinabè: (1) le quotidien Sidwaya s'inscrit clairement dans le sillage du pouvoir; (2) en ce qui concerne L'Observateur Paalga, son ."
- ↑ "CONSEIL SUPERIEUR DE LA COMMUNICATION : Béatrice Damiba jure de bien gérer l'institution - leFaso.net". lefaso.net (in French). Retrieved 2024-01-13.
