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Le Pays

Le Pays is a private daily newspaper published in Ouagadougou since 1991 by Éditions Le Pays. One of Burkina Faso's established independent dailies, it covers national politics, security, regional news, the economy and society, with editorials and readers' pages, and maintains an online edition carrying the paper's daily output between print runs.

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Le Pays is positioned toward the editorial center of Burkina Faso's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups Burkina Faso outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing Le Pays beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.

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