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On the front page of the press, the expulsion, this weekend, from Burkina Faso, of the correspondents of the French dailies Le Monde and Libération, after the suspensions of France F24 and RFI.

The publication, last week, of an investigation by Libération into a video showing children and adolescents executed in a military barracks, has obviously greatly displeased the junta led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the current president of Burkina Faso - where journalists now find themselves "under the yoke of arbitrariness", according to Libé, who sees in these expulsions "the latest attempt" of the power to "silence the independent press". especially foreign. The association Reporters Without Borders, which is preparing to publish this morning a report on press freedom in the Sahel, reports the "very clear" deterioration of the working conditions of journalists throughout the region, from Chad to Benin via Niger and Mali, and is alarmed to see the entire Sahel become a "no-information zone". The growing muzzling of the Burkinabe press, as evidenced this morning by the silence of several national press headlines, which until now have been quick to denounce abuses of power. A virtual silence broken by the communiqué, published by Wakat Sera, of a Collective of journalists, activists and opinion leaders, who say they are "victims of threats in Burkina": "Criticism or contradiction cannot become offenses or even crimes punishable by death threats or any other force of persecution, harassment and violence", denounces this collective.

Press freedom, also under attack in Algeria, where press boss Ihsane El-Kadi was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for "foreign financing of his company". Jeune Afrique reports that Ihsane El-Kadi, who heads one of Algeria's last independent press groups, along with Radio M and the Maghreb Émergent website, is accused of "having received sums of money from people and organizations in the country and abroad in order to engage in activities likely to undermine state security" - charges that Ihsane El-Kadi denies. False accusations, also hammers The Wall Street Journal, after the arrest, last week, of its correspondent in Russia Evan Gershkovich, officially suspected of espionage by the Russian authorities, accused in turn by the American daily of engaging in a "hostage diplomacy", intended to put pressure on President Joe Biden.

Also on the front page this morning of the French press, the report of the Citizens' Convention on the end of life, presented today at the Elysée Palace to Emmanuel Macron. La Croix indicates that this report advocates the development of palliative care, which aims to help maintain the quality of life of patients at the end of life as much as possible and is also in favour of active assistance in dying, which concerns both euthanasia and assisted suicide - subjects that are extremely debated here in France, where they are still prohibited. French society is therefore preparing to open a sensitive debate. But is she ready for it? In an interview with our colleagues from France Info, psychologist Marie de Hennezel, who has written a successful book on the subject, "Intimate Death", describes the "very paradoxical" relationship of the French with death, with on the one hand, a "denial" and a "taboo", and on the other, the growing desire to allow everyone to "master" his last moments. Death, this "taboo", also notes Libération, which wonders what Emmanuel Macron will do with this report, after the mixed experience of the Citizens' Convention on the climate. Asked by Libé about the "paradox", which would consist in the government challenging the "legitimacy of the crowd" in the street on the pension reform, while relying on citizens, on major issues such as those of the end of life, political scientist Loïc Blondiaux notes the "strategic dimension" of this new Citizens' Convention but explains that the government can no longer ignore either the "mobilizations of the population" or the 'democratic innovations' making 'a place for citizens in the decision-making process'.

The government, which would have done without this controversy around the interview given by the Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, Marlène Schiappa to the American erotic magazine Playboy. According to Courrier International, this very serious affair does not escape the attention of the foreign press, especially Italian. The magazine quotes, in particular, Il Fatto Quotidiano, which announces that Marlene Schiappa appears in a photo "in a sexy pose and wrapped in the French flag" - a shot to discover this Thursday, for those interested. More seriously, the Italian newspaper questions the communication strategy of the French government, this interview, but also the interview, last month, of Emmanuel Macron to Pif Gadget, a magazine for children and teenagers and that of Olivier Dussopt, to the gay magazine Têtu, where the Minister of Labour revealed his homosexuality, in full mobilization against the pension reform.

We do not leave each other on that. On the subject of the French and their paradoxes, still, while the mobilization against the pension reform continues, Slate reports on an astonishing survey, which indicates that four out of ten French people say they do not think critically. Modesty or lucidity, difficult to say. Another surprising fact: contrary to what one might think, 58% of respondents say they never debate on social networks, the main exchanges of ideas are always between friends or during family meals - scarring on Sunday lunchtime around the veal blanquette, there is nothing like it.

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