Sidwaya
Sidwaya is Burkina Faso's state-owned daily newspaper, created in 1984 and published in Ouagadougou by Éditions Sidwaya, a public company. Billing itself as the daily of all Burkinabè, it is the government's paper of record, covering official activity, national politics, regional news from across the country, the economy, culture and sport in print and online.
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Is Sidwaya left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Sidwaya 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 Sidwaya 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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