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Espionage or Aid Work? The Burkina Faso Junta’s Detention of INSO Staff

Somto NwanoluebySomto Nwanolue
October 8, 2025
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Espionage or Aid Work? The Burkina Faso Junta's Detention of INSO Staff
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The Burkina Faso’s military junta has detained eight staff members of the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) on charges of “spying and treason”.

By turning an essential humanitarian safety NGO into a target, Captain Ibrahim Traore’s regime is signaling a radical and dangerous shift in its relationship with the outside world.

The allegations leveled by Security Minister Mahamadou Sana, that INSO “collected and passed on sensitive security information… to foreign powers”, are categorically denied by the organisation. INSO’s core mandate is to provide safety information for aid workers in high-risk zones, a critical service in a country plagued by a worsening Islamist insurgency.

This information, as INSO rightly emphasizes, is standard, non-confidential data intended to protect human lives. To frame this routine, life-saving work as treason exposes the junta’s profound political paranoia and its increasing hostility toward any independent civil society presence.

Espionage or Aid Work? The Burkina Faso Junta's Detention of INSO Staff

The timeline is incriminating because the NGO was suspended in July for collecting “sensitive data without authorisation,” and subsequently, staff were detained. This aggressive crackdown on a neutral organization directly undermines the entire humanitarian community in the Sahel. It sends the message that NGO accountability and basic security information sharing will be treated as state threats. Given the “record” number of aid workers killed globally, as noted by INSO representative Anthony Neal, obstructing a safety organisation is an act that directly endangers the millions of vulnerable Burkinabé who rely on foreign aid.

This incident must also be understood in the context of Burkina Faso’s dramatic geopolitical realignment. Since the coup three years ago, the military government has deliberately fostered a frosty relationship with Western nations, culminating in the severing of ties with the former colonial power, France, in favour of Russian military assistance.

Why It Matters

By manufacturing an espionage crisis, the junta seeks to achieve several objectives. First is to distract domestic attention from the regime’s failures, including the worsening security situation and credible human rights abuses by the army against civilians.

Secondly, it is a convenient tool to crackdown on political dissent and freedom of expression by silencing independent voices and further restricting civil liberties. Any individual or organization seeking to report on the humanitarian or security situation is now at risk of the same arbitrary detention.

Captain Traore’s regime is not only turning its back on the West, it is also actively sabotaging the essential infrastructure for saving lives. The detention of the INSO country director and his colleagues is a clear and present danger to the millions facing starvation and violence.

Unless the junta is held to account by a unified international coalition, the humanitarian safety crisis will deepen, and Burkina Faso will continue its dangerous slide into becoming a pariah state, with its most vulnerable citizens paying the ultimate price for its leaders’ strategic paranoia.

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Somto Nwanolue is a news writer with a keen eye for spotting trending news and crafting engaging stories. Her interests includes beauty, lifestyle and fashion. Her life’s passion is to bring information to the right audience in written medium

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