''Sidwaya'' is a

French-language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...

newspaper in

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...

. It was founded in 1984 following the

Thomas Sankara Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist–Leninist revolutionary, and Pan-Africanist, who served as President of Burkina Faso from his coup in 1983 to his deposition and ...

government's closure of the independent '' Observateur''. Among the printed

media of Burkina Faso The mass media in Burkina Faso consists of print media and state-supported radio, news, and television stations, along with several private broadcasters with programs consisting of sports, music, cultural, or religious themes. Government media inf ...

its circulation is second to the reopened

L'Observateur Paalga ''L'Observateur Paalga'' (1973–1984, 1991-) is the most widely read newspaper in Burkina Faso. It was created 1973 by Édouard Ouédraogo, but burnt down 1984 by the Thomas Sankara regime as part of control of the media of Burkina Faso, leaving ...

, and Sidwaya is still associated with the government view.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 ."

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Newspaper homepage (French)
Newspapers published in Burkina Faso French-language newspapers published in Africa Newspapers established in 1984 {{BurkinaFaso-stub