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13 minutes of silence for journalist, Norbert Zongo assassinated in Burkina Faso [No comment]

At the justice palace in Ouagadougou, demonstrators observed 13 minutes of silence in remembrance of Nobert Zongo. Zongo was assassinated in 1998, at the age of 49, while investigating allegations linking the brother of Burkina Faso’s President, Blaise Compaore, to a high-profile unsolved murder.